From: unk...@googlegroups.com   
      
   An exposé of psychiatric crimes and human rights violations. "To see what is   
   in front of one's nose requires a constant struggle." George Orwell, 1946   
   Saturday, January 14, 2006   
      
   Psychiatric Incompetence   
   "In a Florida study, 100 consecutively admitted patients to a psychiatric   
   hospital who had been given a psychiatric diagnosis were given a complete   
   medical examination. Doctors concluded that nearly half of the patients'   
   psychiatric problems were    
   secondary manifestations of an undiagnosed medical problem.    
      
   According to Gold, nearly all of these patients would have ended up warehoused   
   in state run mental health facilities, which costs the patients their health   
   with tax dollars paying for the negligence. Some patients die confined in   
   mental hospitals as    
   their real illness, cancer for example, goes untreated.    
      
   In the Florida study, psychiatrists missed diagnosing physical illness in 80%   
   of the cases. Gold said he was "embarrassed" at how bad psychiatrists were at   
   "doctoring" and that one third of psychiatrists admit feeling incompetent to   
   give a patient a    
   complete physical examination."   
      
   Mark Gold, The Good News About Depression, 1986, p.22-24   
      
   http://psychiatricnews.blogspot.com/2006/01/psychiatric-incompetence.html?m=1   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)