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- From: geb@cs.pitt.edu (Gordon Banks)
- Newsgroups: sci.med
- Subject: Re: Peter Breggin, _Toxic Psychiatry_ (Q)
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- Date: 27 Dec 92 23:57:22 GMT
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- In article <BzB0IB.89F@unx.sas.com> sasghm@theseus.unx.sas.com (Gary Merrill) writes:
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- >Yeah. Naturally when you take a child to the pediatrician and the child
- >presents with classic symptoms of scarlet fever the pediatrician
- >cultures the skin. Who are you trying to kid? It is these kinds of
- >misdirected and specious responses that weaken your own position.
- >
- Huh? The rash in scarlet fever is an immune reaction, not bacteria
- in the skin! Believe me, the diagnosis of schizophrenia can be
- made with more certainty than scarlet fever in many cases. After
- you've seen some schizophrenics, you get to recognize them just
- as you do children with the symptoms of scarlet fever. The only
- difference is that you are more mentally prepared to believe your
- pediatrician when he pronounces that your child has scarlet fever
- than if your psychiatrist pronounced your relative to have schizophrenia.
- This is a consequence of your previous prejudice against "mental illness",
- not some magic difference in how these diseases are diagnosed.
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