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Old May 01, 2010, 05:56 AM
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Originally Posted by pegasus View Post
Well an MD is not a specialist in mental health.
No, but he has studied the history of medicine quite a bit -- and the history of mental health too. For instance, he talked quite a bit about Freud, and Egas Moniz, and so on...

His outlook on mental health treatment is probably representative of the more educated general medical health professionals. Which is not all that encouraging to me!
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