This is precisely the situation we find ourselves in today. For want of a paradigm, our veterans are lost in a sea of inconclusive reports, redundant studies, expanding budgets, programs and committees, and cries of conspiracy all for want of a paradigm, something to explain the relationship between the exposures they experienced during the Gulf War and the multi-system symptoms that now plague them.
Different specialists apply different monikers to their symptoms.
The rheumatologist observing diffuse muscle pain diagnoses myalgias. The neurologist hearing head pain and nausea diagnoses migraine headaches. The pulmonologist finding airway reactivity diagnoses asthma. The psychiatrist seeing chronic malaise diagnoses depression. The gastroenterologist noting GI complaints diagnoses irritable bowel syndrome.