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"Treating metabolic disorders is as complex as treating ADHD." This sentence presumes ADHD is a medical discovery, not a social construct, and several other th
by anotherman554 4y ago
"Treating metabolic disorders is as complex as treating ADHD."
This sentence presumes ADHD is a medical discovery, not a social construct, and several other things other things which are debatable.
(This is not to discount the suffering of anyone being treated by a psychiatrist, suffering is real, diagnostic criteria, the objective reality of mental health categories, and what percentage of people benefit from drugs is debatable).
"the last 10 years of technology have reshaped the entire landscape of medical diagnosis and treatment."
I care about whether people are healthier than they are 10 years ago, not how exciting it is to read an article with the words "cancer" juxtaposed with "A.I."
This quote suggests people aren't getting any healthier, which suggests your claims about the wonderous advances over the last 10 year may be overblown:
"Suicide rates haven't come down. The rate of prevalence for many of these disorders, if anything, has gone up, not down. That tells you that whatever we've been doing is probably not adequate,"