Wes Streeting Thinks Mental Health is Over Diagnosed.
Who’s gonna tell him ?
It’s pretty clear he’s only interested in this as a way to further the party’s current austerity programme.
Let the actual experts figure out if there’s an over diagnosis problem and sort it out through the proper consensus forming channels rather than having politicians cherry pick the expert who most aligns with their view.
If you’re going to do benefits cuts against people who are mentally ill specifically, just do that rather than trying to get mental ill health massaged out of the statistics so that you can launder your reputation.
When asked if he agreed with experts that warn of an overdiagnosis of mental health conditions, Streeting said he wanted to "follow the evidence and I agree with that point about overdiagnosis" (my emphasis).
Is this really an unreasonable exchange of views? Shall we perhaps hold off on the outrage till we’ve read the whole article? Or even the whole of the sentence in question?
Very carefully worded question that avoids any mention of who specifically the “experts” in question are, or what study exactly came to these conclusions.
There are “experts” that claim the world is flat, and “experts” that claim vaccines cause all sorts of problems worse than the diseases they prevent.
One can always dig up an expert that agrees with whatever bullshit you wish to peddle.
I’d bet folding money that the “expert opinion” referred to is in fact, in the report by the IFS they mention above in the article rather than any medical study examining the subject.
‘Bet folding money’ or ‘speculate baselessly’?
I wouldn’t call 40+ years of exposure to politicians’ half truths and twisting of words “baseless”, but you do you.
It would require a level of naivety that most lack.
Wes Streeting can fuck right off
And all doctors should listen to a history graduate because?
Historically they were undiagnosed seems to be the best advice he can offer. Or is it the usual political solution. Deny anything you don’t like exists.
