title: [The symptoms in family medicine are not symptoms of disease, they are symptoms of life].
abstract: The symptoms in family medicine are not signs of disease, but "signs of life"; in the consultation "all patient life comes together with him". Every consultation is primarily a biopsicosocial problem: the person perceives a dysfunction or alteration in relation with himself and his context. To do a diagnosis only with physical symptoms, can be a mistake because these do not identify the real problem. The different types of symptoms are "entangled" or chained some in others: the symptoms can be fitted or inevitable; to be expressions of biochemical alterations, symbols for the patient, group context expressions, or kinds of facing the facts; and they depend on the previous psychological patient performance, the severity of the deficit of the psychological function associated with the disease, the residual skills, the adjustment and the confrontation of the functional limitations, the relation doctor-patient, as well as on the influence of the context.
authors.affiliation: Especialistas en Medicina de Familia y Comunitaria, Centro de Salud Polígono Industrial, Toledo, España. jturabianf@Meditex.Es
authors.forename: José Luis
authors.initials: JL
authors.lastname: Turabián
authors.forename: Benjamín
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Pérez Franco
authors.forename: José Luis
authors.initials: JL
authors.lastname: Turabián Fernández
authors.forename: Benjamin
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Pérez Franco
mesh_terms: D003933:Diagnosis; D005194:Family Practice; D006801:Humans; D019369:Life