When a patient comes to a physician it is because they have identified an illness according to some model under which they operate. The expectation is that the physician operates under the same model. This may not be the case. Failure of the physician to recognize the model under which the patient operates may lead to miscommunication and a stormy therapeutic relationship . If the model is identified and is inconsistent with the physician's model, education or referral can take place to optimize treatment.
Health is a rather abstract quality.
We are all in a state of death and dying. Our body is composed of cells that succumbs to death. For example, the dermis. Thus, health is not the absence of cell loss or cell death. Nor is health the presence of cell production as seen by malignancies where there is an over production of cells.