In message <[log in to unmask]> Graham Ross wrote:
> The issue we were flagging is alleged over-diagnosis and over-treatment
^
er, flogging, surely?
> in the younger age groups, thus the example of the jilted girl. I can
> see less of a problem with the elderly in diagnosis, (although I would
> have thought that medication options were less justified since for most
> elderly it is often surely more a problem of how to run their lives in a
> way that gives them something to do other than comntemplate death).
and lo the scales fell from my eyes
Had I but considered this obvious cause for the cryptic epidemic of
depressed 'third-agers' I would have been able to slash my
prescribing of antidepressants by 90% or more. Maybe to nothing.
The cost, however, of keeping them all occupied with rewarding
pursuits, might cause something of a problem. However, it would
open whole new vistas of potential litigation to our legal chums.
"Dr Dr Hotchkies,
We act on behalf of Mrs Over-The-Hill who was most upset that
you offered her a horse-riding holiday when she really wanted
to go to Disneyland Hull. On her behalf, we're going to sue
your urine-stained pants off your flabby backside."
> Similarly the non-UK studies are not of relevance since this is looked
> at as a UK issue.
Whoops! There goes 95% of all medical research right out
the window.
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