American Psychiatric Association to Arm Chair Trump Assessors... Knock It Off (Congress, ethical)
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The American Psychiatric Association (APA) released a statement Tuesday reaffirming its commitment to “The Goldwater Rule,” which states that it is unethical for psychiatrists to diagnose public figures they have not personally examined.
The APA’s statement comes as Mr. Trump’s critics openly question his mental capacity for the office in light of Michael Wolff’s hotly debated tell-all book about the Trump family. Yale University psychiatry professor Dr. Bandy X. Lee, editor of “The Dangerous Case of Donald Trump: 27 Psychiatrists and Mental Health Experts Assess a President,” claimed to have recently met with more than a dozen Congress members to discuss Mr. Trump’s mental health.
The APA said the public speculation by psychiatrists “undermines the credibility and integrity of the profession and the physician-patient relationship.”
“A proper psychiatric evaluation requires more than a review of television appearances, tweets, and public comments,” the statement said. “Psychiatrists are medical doctors; evaluating mental illness is no less thorough than diagnosing diabetes or heart disease. The standards in our profession require review of medical and psychiatric history and records and a complete examination of mental status. Often collateral information from family members or individuals who know the person well is included, with permission from the patient.
“Using psychiatry for political or self-aggrandizing purposes is stigmatizing for our patients and negatively impacts our profession,” it added.
Accusations have been circulating on Twitter that the prominent Yale professor, known for her public diagnosis of President Donald Trump as having a “mental impairment” and who recently met with lawmakers on Capitol Hill to discuss the issue, isn’t actually a licensed psychiatrist.
In fact, Campus Reform discovered that according to the State of Connecticut, Lee’s “physician/surgeon” license expired in 2015, and her application for reinstatement has been “pending” ever since.
When people hit her up on Twitter, she deleted her account.
Your emperor has no clothes. He's stark naked for all the world to see, and the APA is saying "we can't be sure he's naked because we haven't examined him personally ".
Your emperor has no clothes. He's stark naked for all the world to see, and the APA is saying "we can't be sure he's naked because we haven't examined him personally ".
If he is naked, the world will see. We don't need some "expert" looking through distorted glasses telling us what we should be seeing.
It's not Trump who is the one that's hysterical in the US today.
Your emperor has no clothes. He's stark naked for all the world to see, and the APA is saying "we can't be sure he's naked because we haven't examined him personally ".
The left is up to their old sexual perversions again.
Imagining Trump naked and going in to private rooms to "think about it".
You want a laugh? Watch this video.. you see that whack job asian in the thumbnail? Thats the psychiatrist that diagnosed trump.... she looks like she needs to be in the mental ward
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