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Controversy over new psychiatric guide continues

The dust has not settled over the American Psychiatric Association's release of the controversial fifth edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, known as DSM-5, as the debate now centers on whether the new manual is already obsolete....

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I'm Not a Doctor: Physician Affairs Blog – AMA membership, doc population offer study in contrasts

Critics of the American Medical Association argue that the organization's ranks have shrunk to the point where it can no longer claim to be the voice...

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