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August 30, 2004

The power of diagnosis

California man's HIV diagnosis turns out to be wrong

Jim Malone spent years battling depression and losing weight, expecting to die at any time.

If somebody can be mis-diagnosed with AIDS you wonder how often people are mis-diagnosed with other more subjective diagnoses such as Schizophrenia, depression.

If you are able to lose weight psychosomatically because of a label that some doctor gave you, certainly you could be depressed or irrational.

Posted by jreighley at August 30, 2004 08:53 AM

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