Neurologist Calls for Surgeon General's Resignation Over Mental Health Report Fred A. Baughman, Jr., M.D., a San Diego neurologist, has urged that Surgeon General David Satcher resign as a result of his Report on Mental Health. The fact that psychiatrists do not perform physical or neurological examinations by which diseases of the brain and nervous system are diagnosed, make their claims of diagnosing and treating biologically- based, brain diseases, unbelievable, a fraud. Baughman adds that the representation of mental disorders to be diseases, due to chemical imbalances of the brain, dissuades the individual from attempts to adapt and cope, in favor of reaching for pills chemical balancers. Gone are such a things a normal childhood . Gone is psychotherapy.
Children are especially at risk.
In the US as nowhere else in the world, Ritalin and other amphetamines are being given to 5-6 million entirely normal children to control behaviors the adults in their lives find objectionable. According to Dr. Baughman, ADHD simply does not exist and pills are pushed as a result of never proven, never-provable, fraudulent, diagnosis. This, of course, is a pertinent, material, bit of information that ought to be shared with every parent called upon to give informed consent to prescribe Ritalin for their child. But, of course it is not. The same is true of the risk vs. benefit computation when considering psychiatric drug treatment for every psychiatric disease.