Abstract
The cases in this chapter are related to those in the previous one. Often patients present with symptoms or problems which are the result of environmental stress — problems of living. Maybe this stress is the result of living with a chronic or terminal illness, or a marital or family problem. Sometimes stress at school, business or work brings the patient along. Sometimes people present because of their inability to cope as age brings illness and disability, or because of social problems such as poverty, housing problems, isolation, loneliness, inability to speak the language of the country, or inability to make friends.
These problems of living may present in many different ways; what they have in common is that the patient presents with symptoms which often initially conceal an underlying problem of living. The cases and questions which follow exemplify these often difficult situations and explore how the family physician senses, defines and manage them.
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Fabb, W.E., Marshall, J.R. (1983). Problems of Living. In: Fabb, W.E., Marshall, J.R. (eds) The Nature of General Family Practice. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-6595-9_2
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