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This is true, because the purposes of diagnosis by clinicians is to help the patient. However, when it comes to research, its because delineating the various c
by SubiculumCode 5y ago
This is true, because the purposes of diagnosis by clinicians is to help the patient.
However, when it comes to research, its because delineating the various causes of X is very very very hard and long research process.
- bdamm 5y agoThe incentives are not aligned that way. It might be true that diagnosis helps patients, but diagnoses also helps the clinician by providing a patient. This is the dark side of mental illness research. Ideal for patients would be receiving the attention of a non-specialist who can be very broad in understanding what sequence of specialist attention is needed, when to pull the plug on that attention, and how to track the overall health and well being of a particular patient especially in regards to anything psychiatric. Virtually no MDs/GPs are going to do that.