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  • I have now been thrown out of three neurologists offices, after been given tentative diagnosises, that they then said, oh, no, couldn't be possible.

    The Neurological expert who gambles and the exam that wasn’t. Elizabeth McClung 2008

  • And while it might be, overall, more efficient to exclude unlikely medical diagnosises completely, from a strictly utilitarian POV like not checking any blond for sickle cell anemia, as they are highly unlikely to have it, there is such a load of mythological baggage clinging to concepts of race that the thought of a medical doctor actually adhering to it is rather disquieting to me.

    Who’s White Exercise (UPDATED AGAIN) 2006

  • On the other hand, I find it annoying that so called "regulars" get away with ascribing psychiatric diagnosises onto their opponents.

    The Guardian World News Alastair Campbell 2011

  • Besides the point that there's nothing there - doctor's can and do change their minds and modify diagnosises over the course of minutes, to say nothing of days, weeks, months, or years

    Latest Articles 2009

  • Your selfestime is lost in many a connexion when this happens to you, and all the sudden they focus on everything you do, to figure out, what they can come up with of diagnosises - but ever since It has gone from one to another - one even claiming - that is not a mental desease.

    Blogbot - forsiden 2009

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