Thu, May-03-12, 20:54
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Plan: atkins '72 -now ketogenic
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Location: Baltimore, MD, USA
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Originally Posted by Labhrain
It doesn't, entirely. But, there are plenty of people (perhaps most?) who put a lot of faith in what their physicians say, and are, frankly, afraid of not taking the advice and prescriptions given to them. I'm not in that category, but I once was, so I can easily see how it happens. And, it can be very difficult to "fight" the system, especially for someone who is battling an illness, be it physical or psychiatric.
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Yes, I understand that, what I disagree with is information being skewed and squeezed to fit into sensationalist journalism. I'd rather be armed with the truth, whether that truth is that there is an epidemic of psychiatrists knowingly making false diagnoses, for some reason, or if the truth is more gray than that, or whatever else the truth may be. What I'm saying is that, when I read about the anecdotal story of the woman in the article, the alarm bells that went off in my head were saying; "There is something we are not being told here." I would bet money there is more to the story. And the tone of the piece sounded biased to me. Facts should be allowed to be facts, they shouldn't need this kind of journalistic embellishment. One's credentials do not make it alright for you to indulge in that.
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