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#AskAbhijit 116: Science, Physics, Technology, AI

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Do Psychiatrists Diagnose Brain Problems?

Psychiatrists are the only members of the medical profession that never take a look at the organ that is affected, which is the brain. How do they make their diagnosis? They tell the patient to lie down on a couch, on a sofa, or whatever it is. And based on this very rough procedure, they are diagnose what is wrong with the person and prescribe various medications. It is hand waving and voodoo. That's what psychiatry is. What should actually happen is at least do imaging of the brain. Very often, what happens is that people have undiagnosed brain injuries. You know, brain injury. It happens very often.

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