T-Rex: What day of the week is it? IT'S NOT IMPORTANT, because all that matters is that today it's time for another...
T-Rex: ...SECRET of the MEDICAL PROFESSION!
T-Rex: Doctors have a difficult job: you come in with symptoms and you expect a diagnosis. And sometimes that's really hard! Hate to break it to you, Chuckles, but there's always the chance it's all in your head.
Dromiceiomimus: There's also the chance your symptoms represent a new and terrible disease unknown to medical science!
T-Rex: And in both these cases a doctor may feel pressured to come up with a reassuring label!
Utahraptor: So what do they do?
T-Rex: They MAKE IT UP!
T-Rex: It's called a wastebasket diagnosis: a disease with symptoms so broad as to be effectively meaningless. But it can do real good! Having a named disease can lower patient anxiety and even help alleviate symptoms!
Utahraptor: Diagnosis as therapy?
T-Rex: Exactly! It's like the placebo effect!
T-Rex: ...in that now that we know about it, IT CAN NEVER HELP US AGAIN
