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- From: geb@cs.pitt.edu (Gordon Banks)
- Newsgroups: sci.med
- Subject: Re: Depression; was: Re: Thyroid info needed
- Message-ID: <18269@pitt.UUCP>
- Date: 27 Jan 93 19:37:05 GMT
- References: <1993Jan15.083930.619@news.wesleyan.edu> <2432@hsdndev.UUCP> <C12vzy.6zo@athena.cs.uga.edu>
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- Reply-To: geb@cs.pitt.edu (Gordon Banks)
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- In article <C12vzy.6zo@athena.cs.uga.edu> mcovingt@athena.cs.uga.edu (Michael A. Covington) writes:
- >In article <2432@hsdndev.UUCP> rind@enterprise.bih.harvard.edu (David Rind) writes:
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- >>I don't know of the data comparing responses to women vs. men, but there
- >>is certainly data that overall physicians are much too *slow* to
- >>ascribe symptoms to depression. Depression is perhaps 50% underdiagnosed
- >>by primary care physicians and is a cause of many extensive and
- >>expensive medical workups looking for explanations for vague
- >>constitutional symptoms.
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- >Well, doesn't it make sense to look for potentially curable causes of
- >vaguely ill health before assuming it's a problem that can only be treated
- >symptomatically?
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- So few things are as treatable as depression and even fewer curable
- that we are very happy when we find depression is what is causing
- the problem, if the problem seems serious. That we can treat and
- usually very successfully.
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- Gordon Banks N3JXP | "Skepticism is the chastity of the intellect, and
- geb@cadre.dsl.pitt.edu | it is shameful to surrender it too soon."
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