How is comorbidity lived? - The Lancet

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..... Research that seeks to appreciate the everyday reality of comorbidity––the contingent character of chronic, reoccurring illnesses––is faced with theoretical and methodological untidiness. The correspondence of symptom and root cause is muddled. Inside the clinic, the demand for an index disease to guide understanding and intervention is often answered only by the story or symptom presented during each clinical encounter. Outside the clinic, the daily negotiation of health and illness emerges in ways that are both precarious and pedestrian. Few would be surprised if the daily struggle with comorbidity wore a person down, eroding not only the meaning of illness but of life.....