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This isn't a problem specific to ADHD or psychiatry. Many conditions are similarly defined by an arbitrary cutoff of symptom severity, or where a given quantity falls in terms of percentile or standard deviation in some reference population. I think the underlying problem is the orthodoxy of medical billing/insurance that says every treatment has to be associated with a distinct condition indicated by a particular diagnostic code.


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