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> Yes, there are bad doctors, and there are cursory or improper diagnoses, but that does not make the valid diagnoses any less valid, or the invalid diagnoses a
by randallsquared 14y ago
> Yes, there are bad doctors, and there are cursory or improper diagnoses, but that does not make the valid diagnoses any less valid, or the invalid diagnoses any more valid.
It calls into question, somewhat, whether there actually are any valid diagnoses, if a disease is well-known to be very commonly diagnosed improperly.
- btilly 14y agoIn the case of ADHD there happens to be sufficiently good evidence of real cases, along with brain scans showing what is happening inside of the brain, that we can be very confident that the disorder is real. However if a random person claims to have it, we may not be confident that they were correctly labeled.