Baughman - Letter to Dean Williams

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Fred Baughman, has had more than 30 years experience in adult and

pediatric neurology. He is a fellow of the American Academy of

Neurology. Here is a letter Dr. Baughman wrote rebutting the Dean of

Duke University's School Of Medicine's contention that " 1 in 10

infants are mentally ill " , and that " Infants need mental health checks

" .

 

November 30, 2005

 

 

FRED A. BAUGHMAN, JR. M.D.

NEUROLOGY AND CHILD NEUROLOGY (Board Certified)

 

FELLOW, AMERICAN ACADEMY OF NEUROLOGY

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R. Sanders Williams, MD, Dean

 

November 30, 2005

Duke University

School of Medicine

c/o K. Barbee

 

Re. 1 in 10 infants mentally ill. Infants need mental health checks.

Early intervention is the way forward, experts believe

(Reported by Reuters and published by Newsweek, MSNBC, ABC News and

elsewhere)

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/4478428.stm

Monday, 28 November 2005

 

Dear Dean Williams,

 

This article for which Professor Adrian Angold of the Duke Medical

Centre is a lead source reads (in part):

" Infants need mental health checks. Early intervention is the way

forward, experts believe. A tenth of two to five-year-olds have a

serious psychiatric illness, yet most cases are being missed, warn

experts. "

Their diagnoses of " serious psychiatric illnesses, " claiming each to

be an abnormality = disease are their vehicles/excuses to

drugging-for-profit. The infants and children of whom they speak have

no physical abnormality = disease and are, invariably, physically

normal. With no discernible abnormality to be made normal or more

nearly normal, by drugs, their drugging is not " treatment " but

POISONING. All non-psychiatric physicians of your medical school

faculty and all medical school faculties, nationwide, know this of

their psychiatrist colleagues but stand silently by while this crime

is perpetrated, doing and saying nothing.

 

The article continues:

" The problems go beyond tantrums and bad behaviour and impact

negatively on all aspects of an infant's life, the Institute of

Psychiatry will hear. And failure to spot and treat these conditions

early is causing unnecessary distress and suffering.

 

Mental health services need to be geared towards very young

children as a matter of urgency, they said.

 

The news comes as a survey of 1,000 young people aged 12-19 by The

Priory Group finds as many as one in five teenagers has considered or

actually harmed themselves purposefully because of feelings of failure

and social inadequacy.

 

This may mean intervening much earlier than people have typically

thought.

 

Professor Adrian Angold

 

Work by Professor Adrian Angold from Duke Medical Centre, currently

in press, suggests most mental health problems are evident even in

infancy.

 

He found that one in 10 children aged two to five, from a sample of

307, had obvious signs and symptoms of psychiatric illnesses such as

attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), anxiety or depression. "

None of these three disorders, said to be diseases to justify drug (or

ECT or psychosurgery) treatment, is an actual disease = abnormality,

and yet pyschiatry says they are, and invariably, speaks of them as if

they are. Psychiatry as a parody of medicine, not science, in the

least. No psychiatric diagnosis is an actual disease, there is never

a physical abnormality, its drug treatment is, therefore, poisoning.

Will you institution and its staff assume responsibility for the fraud

perpetrated by this psychiatrist who is a member of your faculty

" It suggests that such conditions begin very early in life, perhaps

even in the womb, Professor Angold, associate professor of psychiatry

and behavioural sciences at Duke, told a London conference. "

Angold says: " ...begin very early in life, perhaps even in the

womb... " Can their be any doubt he considers them diseases, speaks of

them as diseases, abrogates the informed consent rights of every

patient and family. What must be realized here is that this

man--Angold is a professor at a US medical school. All members of the

faculty of your medical school, all members of the faculties of all

medical schools know that psychiatry's claims it diagnoses and treats

diseases is a complete lie, that they do not, that the persons thus

diagnosed are normal and that their prescription drugs are not

treatments but POISONING. That they target infants with their lies

and poisons is a disgrace and much, much more.

" He believes that screening for and treating these disorders in

babies and infants is the way forward - waiting until childhood or

adulthood is too late. "

I would be heartened to hear that Duke University will no longer be a

party to such pseudoscience and deception.

 

Sincerely,

 

 

Fred A. Baughman, Jr., MD