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@Learner1 exactly!Exactly what blood tests were run in these patients that found so little? I have pages of abnormal tests, but only a few items on CBC/CMPs are ever out of whack...
Absolutely effing BRILLIANT analogy!!!Imagine a civilization with no concept of electricity trying to troubleshoot a set of battery-powered flashlights.
Except for the side that says this is a biological, multiorgan system disease with autoimmunity likely in many of us, with structural issues like CCI in others.it seems both sides of view are allowed to speak in the article:
This disease does not belong in the hands of psychiatrists.
Maybe all patients with broken bones, cancer, diabetes, and heart attacks should have psychiatry help them get over their problems too.