According to the fan-favorite 30-year celebratory piece she wrote in Nursing Science Quarterly in 2017, Dr. Jacqueline Fawcett, Ph.D., RN, FAAN implies that: because the 'medical model' doesn't exist as a conceptual model (from what Dr. Fawcett could find from a brief, non-systematic review), medicine, per se, does not have discipline-specific knowledge and, therefore, isn't a discipline but rather is a 'trade.' Ergo, "medical model" doesn't really exist at all.

This is all predicated on faulty reasoning, illogical leaps and poor empirical and philosophical work on the part of Dr. Fawcett. The fact that no one on the Editorial side of this publication didn't reject this just speaks to the fact that because Dr. Fawcett is a 'Living Legend," no one wishes to challenge her. This needed to be challenged, and is one of the sorts of pieces that does more harm to our profession publicly than it helps. This serves merely to alienate us from the rest of contemporary healthcare, at a time when our field continues to dwindle and our resources follow suit.

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