Distress could refer to any level, from the normal worry, fear, and sadness anyone would feel with a diagnosis of cancer, to more severe levels that might represent true -- and potentially treatable -- psychiatric disorders.
However, our primary conclusion indicating disagreement among physicians regarding the appropriate recommendation for children with recurrent headache and a 1% risk of treatable pathology would very likely remain true even with a large degree of non-response bias.
Over the past 400 years, we've gone back and forth -- and still, we haven't settled on what is true -- depression is a treatable illness.
These positive downstream effects include: identifying more HIV infections and more people earlier in their infection; increasing testing utilization; promoting a view of HIV as a treatable, chronic condition; providing an understanding of the true extent of the HIV epidemic; and improving public health.
The same is true of health clinics, meaning a routine, treatable illness can often prove fatal.
10 Thus, not only would greater knowledge of the true diagnosis improve the outcome for patients with more accurately diagnosed treatable life-threatening diseases, such as scrub typhus, but also, the large pool of cases without a diagnosis established at all would serve as a likely source for discovery of novel emerging infectious diseases.
But while it's true that addicts who seek treatment are seldom cured, their disease is treatable when we reject the pseudoscience, moralizing, and scare tactics that characterize the current system.
True, it's harder to romanticize insomnia if we know it might be a matter of aberrant breathing treatable by nose strips, ungainly headgear or a trip to the sleep clinic.
It is eminently treatable.
