Building COVID-19's semiology: The blind wise men and the elephant

CONCLUSIONS: Official protocols should include other symptoms as fatigue, loss of appetite, muscle and joint aches and high airways symptoms as frequent symptoms of COVID-19 attending to the stories of patients. Those unspecified symptoms can be unnoticed by patients and professionals and can delay the detection of disease and the contact tracing in primary care. It is necessary to obtain a detailed description of the symptoms and avoid translating them into pre-established medical terms that with their meaning substitute and make the patients' report invisible, turning professionals deaf and blind to a new disease and making more difficult for them to build the narration of disease.PMID:35606199 | PMC:PMC8810389 | DOI:10.1016/j.gaceta.2021.12.004

Source: Gaceta Sanitaria - May 23, 2022 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Gemma Torrell Vallesp ín Aurora Rovira Fontanals Meritxell S ánchez Amat Mar ía José Fernández de Sanmamed Santos Source Type: research