Long COVID and Medicine's Two Cultures

Ralph I Horwitz; Allison Hayes Conroy; Mark R Cullen; Katharine Colella; McKayla Mawn; Burton H Singer; Ida Sim

doi:10.1016/j.amjmed.2022.03.020

Long COVID and Medicine's Two Cultures

Am J Med. 2022 Aug;135(8):945-949. doi: 10.1016/j.amjmed.2022.03.020. Epub 2022 Apr 10.

Authors

Ralph I Horwitz¹, Allison Hayes Conroy², Mark R Cullen³, Katharine Colella⁴, McKayla Mawn⁴, Burton H Singer⁵, Ida Sim⁶

Affiliations

¹ Department of Medicine, Lewis Katz School of Medicine, Temple University, Philadelphia, Penn. Electronic address: ralph.horwitz@yale.edu.
² Geography and Urban Studies, Temple University, Philadelphia, Penn.
³ Stanford Center for Population Health Sciences (retired), Stanford University, Stanford, Calif.
⁴ Lewis Katz School of Medicine, Temple University, Philadelphia, Penn.
⁵ University of Florida.
⁶ Division of General Internal Medicine, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco.

PMID: 35417745
DOI: 10.1016/j.amjmed.2022.03.020

Abstract

Medicine has separated the two cultures of biological science and social science in research, even though they are intimately connected in the lives of our patients. To understand the cause, progression, and treatment of long COVID , biology and biography, the patient's lived experience, must be studied together.

Keywords: Biosocial medicine; Long COVID; Medical biography; Social determinants of health.

Publication types

Review
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

COVID-19* / complications
Humans
Medicine*
Post-Acute COVID-19 Syndrome