BACKGROUND Physicians in primary and secondary care are frequently confronted with patients with medically unexplained symptoms (MUS). In order to solve their patients' problems and out of a fear of overlooking a serious disease, many physicians give their patients full physical examinations and interventions, thereby incorrectly confirming the somatic nature of their condition. Preventing soma...

Newman’s article, a linked patient commentary, and the tranche of rapid responses show how “long covid” has reignited debate about causes management chronic fatigue syndrome.1 Rather than moving beyond controversy, most ensuing arguments have fallen back into familiar grooves deepened by confirmation bias dualistic thinking.123 On more positive note, intense media attention on public interest i...

Medically unexplained somatic complaints (MUSC) are a common phenomenon in primary care settings, and they pose challenge to clinicians terms of diagnosis management. MUSC refers the presence physical symptoms that not attributed any known medical or organic cause. These can significantly affect patients’ quality life impose substantial burden on healthcare systems. In real-life clinical practi...

BACKGROUND Providing reassurance is one of physicians' most frequently used verbal interventions. However, medical reassurance can fail or even have negative effects. This is frequently the case in patients with medically unexplained symptoms. It is hypothesized that these patients are more likely than patients from other groups to incorrectly recall the likelihoods of medical explanations prov...

Fourteen common physical symptoms are responsible for almost half of all primary care visits. Only about 10% to 15% of these symptoms are found to be caused by an organic illness over a 1-year period. Patients with medically unexplained symptoms are frequently frustrating to primary care physicians and utilize medical visits and costs disproportionately. This paper will review the relationship ...