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Re: Doctro's Quote » stjames

Posted by IsoM on December 30, 2001, at 13:09:09

In reply to Re: When One Doesn't Respond Well to ADs, posted by stjames on December 30, 2001, at 11:30:19

Yes, I read that quote of his & thought "this sounds like a doctor attuned to his patients." I was quite struck by that comment too.

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> > Surf around his website. It's worth it. I particularily like:
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> > http://www.preskorn.com/columns.html
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> I like this part:
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> * As I discussed in an earlier column, I believe we should avoid defining patients by their illnesses. Joe suffers from schizophrenia rather than being a schizophrenic. In the same vein, it is his illness, rather than Joe, that is treatment refractory. Finally, the treatments have failed Joe rather than Joe failing them.1 "
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> As I like to say "You do not have to be your diagnosis."
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> james


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