From Chronic Fatigue to Lyme: Medically Unexplained No More=20
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Labeling sick patients psychiatric is medical abuse.=20
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Over the past year=2C some forces in the highest reaches of medicine have =
made ever stronger efforts to burden the sick=2C diseased=2C and infected w=
ith psychiatric labels=2C and thus=2C to invalidate them and consign them t=
o lives of numbing medication and endless untreated pain. Some pundits see =
this as psychiatric abuse perpetuated by non-psychiatrists --since it is ra=
rely the psychiatrist=2C but rather=2C those in other specialities who step=
outside the circle of their formal training to impose these crude diagnose=
s on the medically ill.
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to read the entire blog=2C visit: http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/emerg=
ing-diseases/200910/chronic-fatigue-lyme-medically-unexplained-no-more
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