The rate of misdiagnosis in the medical field is genuinely frightening. Its not uncommon for chronically ill people to need 20 to hundreds of appointments to get a diagnosis for the disease they clearly have. Worse I think is all the "hysteria" and "hypochondria" misdiagnoses along the way that extend how long it takes to get the diagnosis and causes denial of treatment by other clinicians.
This stuff has a very long history and I can't tell they exist or not what I can say is that doctors miss the real condition all the time. For chronic illness the actual appointment to diagnosis rate is less than 5%, that is an enormous waste of everyones time and money and its made worse by the fact it comes along with a bad diagnosis that dismisses the patient. This is a much bigger problem than investigating someone who thinks they are ill and actually isn't.
This stuff has a very long history and I can't tell they exist or not what I can say is that doctors miss the real condition all the time. For chronic illness the actual appointment to diagnosis rate is less than 5%, that is an enormous waste of everyones time and money and its made worse by the fact it comes along with a bad diagnosis that dismisses the patient. This is a much bigger problem than investigating someone who thinks they are ill and actually isn't.