Posted by linkadge on October 23, 2007, at 21:16:42
In reply to Re: That Way Lies Madness » linkadge, posted by Squiggles on October 23, 2007, at 20:50:51
>Yes, it does. Doctors see thousands of patients
>with similar conditions and try all the
>armamentarium of drugz (boy that word is >ugly,lol);No it doesn't. One can never know if they made the best decision. That is an impossable thing to say unless somebody has literally tried every possable treatment known to man which is impossible.
Again doctors don't know everything. They push drugs for bipolar disorder that have very little cumulative patient exposure. Zyprexa and risperidal were magic bullits for bipolar, but doctors didn't know that they gave you diabeties. So if a doctor gives you zyprexa, he has to have made the absolutely optimal decision? Why?
In the 50's doctors used amphetamines for the same types of crippling depression we see today. Were these patients treated optimally? I know, I know.. that was then and this is now, right?
>There may be the unlucky ones, the ones who have >been misdiagnosed, the religious, and the well->read experimenters (like i used to be).
Again, you are not really making logical sence. Just because a patient seeks alternatives doesn't mean that the patient has been diagnosed incorrectly.
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