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12.03.2018 | Editorial
Suffering Begets Suffering, and the Future of Primary Care
Erschienen in: Journal of General Internal Medicine | Ausgabe 5/2018
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Two papers in this issue delve into the interplay of illness, suffering, health care, and what policy advocates call the social determinants of health (Fig. 1). Both deliver well-crafted evidentiary glimpses into how different forms of human suffering collide, overlap, and reinforce one another. Each tells a somewhat different tale, but leads to a similar quandary about whether our attributional models remain unequal to the task of understanding the suffering we health care providers and policymakers are called upon to address.
Fig. 1
Depiction of independent variables that may be associated with physical symptom burden among homeless adults assessed by Patanwala et al.3 optimized for graphic clarity and the convenience of the editorial writer. Arrows depicting potential bidirectional, direct, and indirect associations among these variables are not shown.
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