title: Chronic cough with multiple causes.
abstract: This case reports a 57-year-old lady presented with cough of two months duration despite repeated treatments from multiple general practitioners. It took her another two months to know her diagnoses and a further couple of months to be relieved of her cough and became asymptomatic. Chronic cough management in primary care often needs an empiric integrative approach and requires good doctor-patient rapport with informed follow ups and continuity of care to be successful.
authors.affiliation: MMed(FamMed UM), MD(USM), Family Medicine Specialist, Department of Family Medicine, Faculty of Medicine & Health Sciences, Universiti Putra Malaysia, Selangor, Malaysia.
authors.forename: Bh
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Chew
keywords: Chronic cough diagnosis; chronic cough management; continuity of care; doctor-patient relationship; empiric integrative approach