The 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 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.