Patients should also be told when to expect an improvement and, for drugs that treat hidden symptoms like elevated blood pressure or cholesterol, they should be kept informed of progress, or lack of it, being made toward the desired therapeutic goal.
This means that interviewers (or health professionals) have to probe normalised accounts to uncover hidden symptoms.
Mr. Gottlieb asked whether the drugs Mr. Braunstein had taken could have been hiding symptoms of mental illness.
Initially, it is far too easy to hide symptoms of distress from clinical professionals that may lead to depression, alcohol abuse, drug dependency, relationship problems and even suicide.
But missing even one race can be devastating to a driver's chances of winning a championship or even keeping a ride, which is why there is some question if drivers would hide symptoms of a concussion.
As the drawdown in Afghanistan progresses and troops return home, the Defense Department must cement a more defined and interactive ways to screen returning troops, making it more difficult to hide symptoms.
Furthermore, treatment of dyspepsia with acid suppressants may hide symptoms of gastric cancer and delay diagnosis (Talley et al, 1993).
They frequently hid symptoms, and the researchers watching them during the focus group sessions analyzed their difficulties in assessing patients as being similar to playing "hide and-seek".
Several patients commented that they "covered up", by attempting to hide symptoms from colleagues, as they were concerned that it might affect their employment.
Other participants also tried to hide symptoms when younger: Interviewer: "Can you remember what you might have done at the time, if you needed to cough?
Through their husbands' direct sharing of their observations, these women began to question if their inner psychological experiences were becoming apparent despite their efforts "to hide" symptoms or "not to tell" their husbands.
