If it is Wessely, and I agree some of it sounds like him/ aka "the divine right of kings", what do you make of the statement " may God forgive me for my part in destroying the lives of some of these vulnerable patients."?
He says
We never took a social history and never carried out a mental state examination ... The patients would then be told that they had a condition called myalgic encephalomyelitis and would be sent home to rest with the prognosis that they would not improve but that there may be a cure in the future with advances in neurovirology.
So he thinks his sin was in diagnosing people with a neurological disease instead of a psychosocial disorder, prior to his Wesselian anagnorisis.
I would like to study the prevalence of huge amounts of screaming irony in systems that perpetuate human rights abuses. They seem to coincide a lot.
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