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Medicalising unhappiness: new classification of depression risks more patients being put on drug treatment from which they will not benefit

BMJ 2013; 347 doi: https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.f7140 (Published 09 December 2013) Cite this as: BMJ 2013;347:f7140

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Re: Medicalising unhappiness: new classification of depression risks more patients being put on drug treatment from which they will not benefit

Thank you, Ms Jane Wilson. The BMA has an ethics committee, the BMJ has an ethicist on its Board. Several UK universities have ethicists on their teaching staff. All silent. In the journal web discussion on Health a few months ago and on Unhappiness now, all these people have stayed silent. In this discussion, your Monash expert remains silent. Why, I wonder.

Maybe this needling by me will provoke a reply.

Competing interests: Seeking light.

16 December 2013
JK Anand
Retired doctor
Free spirit
Peterborough