I have to disagree with you. There is a large problem in the medical community of misdiagnosis and treatment error, resulting in death sometimes. In fact, one book says that medical error is a very high cause of death in the U.S., with an estimated 98,000 per year - more than die from motor vehicle accidents, breast cancer, or AIDS (To Err is Human: Building a Safer Health System. Institute of Medicine (US) Committee on Quality of Health Care in America; Kohn LT, Corrigan JM, Donaldson MS, editors (Washington (DC): National Academies Press (US); 2000.))
See also:
Half of obsessive-compulsive disorder cases misdiagnosed: vignette-based survey of primary care physicians. Glazier K, Swing M, McGinn LK. J Clin Psychiatry. 2015 Jun;76(6):e761-7.
What other disorders are misdiagnosed? When we watched this, my wife (who is a physician) said they simply did a bad intake interview with her. Plus, she gave them misleading information about the voices, so again, it's not hard to see why she was misdiagnosed.
Also, remember The Changeling, the 2008 Angelina Jolie film which featured the imprisoning of perfectly sane women by deliberate psychiatric misdiagnoses? Maybe it doesn't happen so much anymore, but it is possible.
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pennilayne
9 years ago
I am not saying it's easy to misdiagnosed. That happens all the time. I am saying the way in which people behave and how rules are in a treatment center like that was ALL wrong. Your wife may be a physician, but I have known *two* very close people in my life treatment centers (I visited both all the time, sat in on groups with them on visitors day for support, all centers follow the same basic guidelines of how it runs, how you can behave, how things go on there etc--- and MOST movies, his one included once again did not show it accurately. I totally agree patients are being misdiagnosed. But unless your wife has worked in places like these or been a patient or known patients and visited them in centers like these, you can say all you want about the misdiagnosing and doctoral stuff, of course I have no idea about most of that--- but that isn't what I was agreeing upon in what was unrealistic in this movie.
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