Stories of symptoms and symptoms of stories

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Stories of symptoms and symptoms of stories

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Lucy O'Hagan

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We are on our summer break and the editorial office is closed until 17 January. In the meantime, please enjoy our Summer Hiatus series, an eclectic mix from our news and clinical archives and articles from The Conversation throughout the year. This article was first published in the 31 March edition

JUST WONDERING

Lucy O’Hagan knows symptoms can tell a story and sometimes the story is hard to hear

In general practice we see many people who have “symptoms without pathology” and they chal­lenge us. We say these patients have somatisation, medicall