Wastebasket diagnosis
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A trashcan diagnosis or wastebasket diagnosis is a vague or fake medical or psychiatric diagnosis given to a patient or to medical records department for essentially non-medical reasons.
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History
Fake diagnoses are not a modern invention. Medicine around the world has a long history of using and abusing the concept of trashcan diagnoses, from "rectifying the humors" to marthambles to neurasthenia to garbled Latin-sounding names which were made up to impress the patient's family.
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See also
- Diagnosis of exclusion, the diagnosis given to a patient when all other plausible options have been ruled out
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