2022
DOI: 10.1136/bmj.o2501
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Long covid update for primary care should acknowledge functional symptoms

Abstract: It must be a fraught task, writing about long covid. The list of symptoms is huge and we don't really know how it arises. I often feel inadequate faced with patients distressed by their long covid symptoms.I was bothered by the lack of any mention by Greenhalgh and colleagues of a functional element to long covid. 1 It seemed a huge omission to me. Many of the complaints we see in primary care are of a functional nature and there is often a large functional component to physical illnesses like chronic obstruct… Show more

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“…Ward comments1 on a lack of acknowledgement of functional symptoms in long covid in our Practice Pointer 2…”
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“…Ward comments1 on a lack of acknowledgement of functional symptoms in long covid in our Practice Pointer 2…”
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confidence: 99%