Selected aspects related to the holistic approach to the problem of pain and suffering in GP practice are presented. Medicine is a limitless source for philosophical reflections – the issue of suffering and pain has always appeared here. COVID-19 is a new, highly contagious disease that causes modern men’s suffering. The forms of the disease and treatment methods are briefly described. Reflections of the contemporary world together with the unpleasant experience of the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic prompts humanistic searches. The experience of medicine, including family medicine, also in the very modern context of the coronavirus pandemic, shows that focusing on family physician practice only on the sphere of somatosis is absolutely insufficient.