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May 20, 2017, 12:58 PM
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Member Since: Apr 2017
Location: AmErica
Posts: 83
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Well, at least now I know it's not just me.
After the first thread reply, I went looking online to find debates across the world on this subject...those incensed that a doctor would withhold their own diagnosis and those insistent that it's immaterial.
If we were discussing a physical ailment, there would BE no debate. One would be legally privy to a diagnosis--which would present the opportunity to study all data available on treatment options, medications--their efficacy and side effects, etc.
Someday there will be definitive tests proving a specific diagnosis. This will weed out those whose symptoms might be contrived and/or imagined--as well as pinpointing a diagnosis when symptoms match another illness. Perhaps that will eliminate the secrecy and the seeming need of some physicians to distrust patients with what they "guess" might be their client's diagnosis. 
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