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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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