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Originally Posted by DrPhil
Excellent question.
I know that it is difficult to come across children (and people) who do not have some diagnosis or some prescription for something.
I think that is doctors overdiagnosing combined with the booming prescription drug industry and combined with parents thinking that their child has every illness under the sun.
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I agree.
On the other hand, I have noticed that some parents are resistant to having their children checked out because of the overdiagnosing. I have noticed this with parents of my friends and with my friends becoming parents. Since so many children, or the parents themselves, are (were) being so overdiagnosed they resist taking their children to be diagnosed even when they have problems. Some of my friends will not listen to their doctor (or doctors) when it comes to potential health issues with children. I am all for getting a second opinion, in fact I'd strongly recommend it at times. One friend who is currently pregnant child 2, refuses to take advice from her doctor even though she almost lost child 1 due to complications that most likely could have been avoided if she had taken the doctors advice. She refused to allow her first child to take antibiotics when the baby had an infection. This was until the baby's father and the grandmother basically forced her.
I realize that many people are more interested in taking a pill to fix all. I do wonder, however, how far the resistance goes.
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