I’m writing about discrimination. I believe that, to a certain extent, the medical field sometimes resorts to a form of discrimination. Sometimes, if health professionals have ordered a lot of tests for a patient for complaints of illness or pain but find nothing medically wrong, the doctors then claim the patient’s problems are due to mental illness.

Doctors rarely acknowledge that there are limitations in diagnosing some illnesses.

People have been known to go to other doctors from other areas and be accurately diagnosed.

Sometimes a person knows his or her body better than any health professional does.

A difficult diagnosis doesn’t mean that the patient is mentally ill.

Nancy J. Leeman, Lewiston