A patient perspective on enduring symptoms – the unmet need
Katharine Cheston · 2025
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Description
Katharine Cheston writes from a patient's view in this short 2025 paper on lasting symptoms with no clear cause. Some people live with chronic, draining symptoms that tests cannot explain. Cheston draws on interviews with people in that position. Their accounts stress deep suffering, isolation, and a lack of medical support.
The paper names barriers built into the care system itself. Stigma, missing follow-up services, and harmful past encounters all play a part. Some patients avoid care even when new symptoms could be life threatening. Cheston calls for better training for clinicians and more room in health services. She also urges ring-fenced funds for biomedical research into these conditions.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Katharine Cheston |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2025 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 9 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |