The symptoms in family medicine are not signs of disease, but "signs of life"; in the consultation "all patient life comes together with him". Every consultation is primarily a biopsicosocial problem: the person perceives a dysfunction or alteration in relation with himself and his context. To do a diagnosis only with physical symptoms, can be a mistake because these do not identify the real problem. The different types of symptoms are "entangled" or chained some in others: the symptoms can be fitted or inevitable; to be expressions of biochemical alterations, symbols for the patient, group context expressions, or kinds of facing the facts; and they depend on the previous psychological patient performance, the severity of the deficit of the psychological function associated with the disease, the residual skills, the adjustment and the confrontation of the functional limitations, the relation doctor-patient, as well as on the influence of the context.
Se aportan elementos para una teoría de la historia natural de la continuidad interpersonal, desde la perspectiva del médico de familia, analizada en base a la reflexión y el recuerdo de dos médicos respecto a su relación con sus pacientes durante 30 años en que han trabajado en el mismo lugar. Es un viaje por los "colores de la historia natural de la continuidad interpersonal", que cambian al paso del tiempo. Se observa un escenario de demanda creciente cada vez más trivial, con una falta de comprensión por parte del paciente de lo que constituye una buena calidad científico técnica y una comunicación con el médico inapropiada, con una defensa cognitiva y conductual del médico. Podrían describirse distintas tipologías de continuidad interpersonal, que se combinan a lo largo del tiempo, y que esta podría ser discontinua, y experimentarse como "momentos", presentando efectos positivos y negativos.
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