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	<title>Comments on: Diagnosis by Government Decree</title>
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		<title>By: Please contact the FDA and help our children &#171; Beyond Meds</title>
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		<dc:creator>Please contact the FDA and help our children &#171; Beyond Meds</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Sep 2008 16:29:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>[...] Then do what he suggests here: To help correct this misapprehension, I think the FDA needs to hear from all of you who read this post. It doesn&#8217;t matter whether you are pro-meds, anti-meds, a true believer that kids are psychiatrically ill at birth or that they are victims of bad environments explained by other DSM diagnoses&#8211;we all have a stake in having the FDA explain what pediatric bipolar disorder is, how it&#8217;s measured, what its symptoms are, what its episodic duration is and so on. Otherwise, we run the risk of what Psych Central has dubbed diagnosis by government decree. Since when has the government been in the business of dreaming up psychiatric diagnoses? [...]</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>[...] Then do what he suggests here: To help correct this misapprehension, I think the FDA needs to hear from all of you who read this post. It doesn&#8217;t matter whether you are pro-meds, anti-meds, a true believer that kids are psychiatrically ill at birth or that they are victims of bad environments explained by other DSM diagnoses&#8211;we all have a stake in having the FDA explain what pediatric bipolar disorder is, how it&#8217;s measured, what its symptoms are, what its episodic duration is and so on. Otherwise, we run the risk of what Psych Central has dubbed diagnosis by government decree. Since when has the government been in the business of dreaming up psychiatric diagnoses? [...]</p>
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		<title>By: maheswar</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Aug 2008 17:29:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>nice post, now-a-days private hospitals are well equiped than government hospitals, why the government is earning so much money from tax payers and from many sources and then also the government is why so back, it should take proper care and save the public.
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mahesh
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		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>nice post, now-a-days private hospitals are well equiped than government hospitals, why the government is earning so much money from tax payers and from many sources and then also the government is why so back, it should take proper care and save the public.<br />
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mahesh<br />
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