Chronic cough can impact my patients' entire lives: Lack of sleep, social stigma, concern over a misdiagnosis. A cough if considered chronic if it lasts 8 weeks, and often it lasts much longer. It can't always be linked as a symptom to any other disease and it often doesn't respond to treatment.
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