In this episode of Off Label, we unpack a paper by Dr. Steve Rondeau that tackles one of the biggest challenges in mental health care: diagnostic heterogeneity. When two patients present with the same symptoms but have entirely different underlying conditions, misdiagnosis becomes almost inevitable—and treatment suffers. The paper explains how overlapping symptoms, frequent comorbidities, and decades of generalized diagnostic frameworks contribute to high error rates and growing patient distr...
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In this episode of Off Label, we unpack a paper by Dr. Steve Rondeau that tackles one of the biggest challenges in mental health care: diagnostic heterogeneity. When two patients present with the same symptoms but have entirely different underlying conditions, misdiagnosis becomes almost inevitable—and treatment suffers. The paper explains how overlapping symptoms, frequent comorbidities, and decades of generalized diagnostic frameworks contribute to high error rates and growing patient distr...
You Are Not Your Code: The Problem with Psychiatric Labels
Off-Label
36 minutes
4 months ago
You Are Not Your Code: The Problem with Psychiatric Labels
Description: Is your mental health diagnosis helping you—or helping a billing system? In this episode of Off Label: Data, Diagnostics, and the Future of Mental Health, Dr. Steve Rondeau takes a hard look at the ICD-10—the globally standardized classification system used to diagnose psychiatric disorders—and makes the case that it’s doing more harm than good. We explore how rigid diagnostic codes reduce complex human experiences to bureaucratic shorthand, distort treatment pathways, and often ...
Off-Label
In this episode of Off Label, we unpack a paper by Dr. Steve Rondeau that tackles one of the biggest challenges in mental health care: diagnostic heterogeneity. When two patients present with the same symptoms but have entirely different underlying conditions, misdiagnosis becomes almost inevitable—and treatment suffers. The paper explains how overlapping symptoms, frequent comorbidities, and decades of generalized diagnostic frameworks contribute to high error rates and growing patient distr...
