The Mystery of Psychogenic Illness

After Dr. Nitskin told the children in Miami that there was no poison gas and they should get back to their classrooms, some parents were furious with him. A few weeks into the Coca-Cola scare in Belgium, some scientists publicly raised the idea that mass psychogenic illness could have been the cause. The backlash from the general public was immediate. Many people though seem to find that hard to get their heads around. When a doctor suggests that their illness might be psychogenic, the patient thinks they're being accused of something or faking them.