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To: Michael Young who wrote (16126)	3/13/2005 11:05:31 AM
From: Clarksterh	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 52153

I had an expert witness from Baylor in a case several years ago who firmly believed it was a fabricated disease. I have an ancestor who wrote a now infamous book called "Woman and her diseases" around 1850. Essentially just about everything significantly more common in women and without measurable sequelae was deemed psychological. As time goes on the list gets shorter and shorter as we can measure better and better. What surprises me is the number of doctors who don't learn from this lesson that "we don't know what it is" is a valid statement. They feel they must have an answer to everything and psychosomatic is a very conventient answer - that it is very disempowering to the patient is of no consequence. My mother, an MD, used to get incensed with that version of the god complex. Clark