The medical model alone is inadequate. Health is more than the provision of medical services. You cannot stop youth violence through the medical model alone. Yet, urban practices are filled with patients who present the after-effects of violent injury. You can't motivate a person.
People motivate themselves.
You provide the support. This is not something you get through a stethoscope. What the students are learning is the art of medicine. The mechanics of medicine is learned in the medical school. Learning how to interpret blood gases is important, but so is learning to negotiate health behavior with patients, he says.