Frankly, in my opinion, it's all just one symptom of a larger ..err.. syndrome, I guess, within the medical community: "if we can't fix it, it's not important"
This is the same reason that psychological issues are not considered "real diseases" either, despite the fact that the symptoms they produce are just as real and in many cases just as debilitating to the people suffering from them. (which is one of my pet peeves: just because there isn't a pill or a surgery for it, doesn't make it not real)
In my opinion, it's also part of the reason why the medical community is so uber-fixated right now on heart disease: "hey, here's a disease we actually understand! Let's focus on that one and ignore all the other stuff we don't have answers for!" (never mind that "focus" translates into "chastise all our patients into anorexia to get a 5%-reduced risk of heart disease")
I think part of the problem is that most doctors aren't scientists, but they think they are, and we treat them like they are.
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Date: 2009-10-28 20:21 (UTC)This is the same reason that psychological issues are not considered "real diseases" either, despite the fact that the symptoms they produce are just as real and in many cases just as debilitating to the people suffering from them. (which is one of my pet peeves: just because there isn't a pill or a surgery for it, doesn't make it not real)
In my opinion, it's also part of the reason why the medical community is so uber-fixated right now on heart disease: "hey, here's a disease we actually understand! Let's focus on that one and ignore all the other stuff we don't have answers for!" (never mind that "focus" translates into "chastise all our patients into anorexia to get a 5%-reduced risk of heart disease")
I think part of the problem is that most doctors aren't scientists, but they think they are, and we treat them like they are.