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Open Letter by Dr. Fred Baughman to Speaker Pelosi on Approval of Mental Health Parity Bill |
SAN DIEGO, March 11 /PRNewswire/ --
Dr. Fred Baughman released the following
statement today:
Dear Madam Speaker,
Believing, with you,
that "Illness of the
brain must be treated
like illness anywhere
else in the body,"
the House of Represen
tatives have passed a
mental health parity
bill.
The problem is that
there is no medical
proof that psychiat
ric diagnoses are
actual diseases,
disorders or illne
sses of the brain.
Claiming they are,
as purveyors of
psychiatry and
"mental health"
assert,is the
greatest health
care fraud in
U.S. history.
In fact,
psychiatry is
distinct from
the rest of
medicine in
that they
do not
examine for,
test for,
or diagnose,
physical abnormalities --
diseases.
Make no mistake:
psychiatrists absent
themselves from the
medical profession
the moment they
enter their psych
iatric training
programs, and
leave behind the
tools with which
to diagnose phys
ical diseases,
embracing instead,
interviews,
behavior check-
lists and their
labeling-billing
bible,the Diag
nostic and Stat
istical Manual
published by the
American Psychi
atric Association.
Predictably, the
Psychiatric Asso
ciation's Manual
of diseases
has exploded
from 112 mental
disorders in
1952 to 374
in the 1994,
DSM-IV.
By parroting
the "disease"
lie, psych
iatry guaran
tees a never
-ending supp
ly of new
"patients"
made up of
normals of
all ages,
while abro
gating the
informed
consent
rights of
every one
of them.
My specialty,
neurology, is
officially
dedicated to
the diagnosis
and treatment
of organic-
physical
diseases of
the brain and
nervous sys
tem. As a
Fellow of the
American
Academy of
Neurology,
I have fought
and lobbied
to get its
leaders to
clarify for
the public
what a
disease is
and is not,
to help
educate
the public
and to help
them educate
themselves
in the face
of the
ubiquitous
"disease"-
"chemical
imbalance"
lie.
I am appalled
by the actions
of the AAN,
the American
Medical Assoc
iation, the
American Acad
emy of Pediat
rics, and of
all of organ
ized medicine
for accepting
and using the
psychiatric
disease lie,
which even
the White House,
has bought into
by arguing it
"would effect
ively mandate
coverage of a
broad range
of diseases."
Passage of your
bill means there
will no longer
be limits to the
coverage of psych
iatric "diseases"
any more than
there would be
for cancer,
heart disease,
and diabetes.
Here we have
proof that
you in the
House -- at
least the 268
members, who
voted this
bill into
existence,
have been
duped--
or worse.
On September 29,
2000, I testified
before the Commit
tee on Education
and the Workforce,
on Behavioral
Drugs in Schools,
saying: "The biggest
health care fraud
in US history is
the representation
of ADHD to be a
disease, and the
drugging of
millions of normal
children."
"Without an iota
of proof the Nat
ional Institute on
Mental Health
proclaims the
children "brain-
diseased," "abnormal".
ADHD is a total,
100% fraud."
In 1993 I testified on
the nature of psychia
tric diagnosis at the
National Institute of
Health:
"If, as I am convinced,
these entities are
not diseases, it would
be unethical to initia
te research to evaluate
biological interven
tions- unethical and
fatally flawed
scientifically."
On December 13, 1999, Surgeon
General,David Satcher announced:
" ...Mental illnesses are
physical illnesses ... we know
the chemical disorders
we are treating ... "
I responded: "there is
no abnormality in life,
or at autopsy, in
depression,bipolar
disorder and other
mental illnesses ...
your role in this
deception is clear...
you should resign."
Americans are routinely
lied to in this regard
and their right to
informed consent
is universally
abrogated.
They are coerced and
preyed upon by govern
ment schools,Child
Protective Services,
Departments of Child
and Family Services,
family and juvenile
courts.
If they resist such
labeling and drugging
they will be deemed
to be guilty of
medical negligence
and stand to lose
custody of their
children.
This is the "mental
health parity"
this bill would further
enable.
The media coverage
of your enactment
of the House mental
health parity bill
observes, "Research
ers have found bio
logical causes and
effective treatments
for numerous mental
illnesses.
But no matter how
passionate current
and past members of
government feel about
the issue, whether or
not there are proven,
demonstrable,
abnormalities to
validate mental, psych
iatric diagnoses as
diseases is entirely
a matter for scientific
medicine to answer,
patient-by patient. No
child can be called
ADHD-diseased, by
adoption of a
list of behaviors by
the DSM Committee of
the APA,and none can
be diagnosed by
any act of the
Congress or White House.
That is my duty as a
physician, and it is a duty
I cannot abdicate.
I would welcome an opportunity
to testify before your committee-
under oath.
Sincerely,
Fred A. Baughman Jr., MD,
Neurologist
Fellow, American Academy of Neurology
Author: The ADHD Fraud- How Psychiatry
Makes "Patients" of Normal Children
http://www.Trafford.com
Contact: Dr. Fred Baughman
Phone: 619.440.8236
Date: March 11, 2008
E-mail: fredbaughmanmd@cox.net
(Emphasis by Justice Lover)
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