“Medicine cannot function on the assumption that every possible explanation must be exhausted before a diagnosis can be made.”

I struggle to understand why that is the case. This position, which is not consistent with the scientific metthod, is only talked about and brought as an argument when talking about conditions thought historically to be caused by the psyche and predominantly affecting women.

I never hear about it in other conditions which require endless and or expensive medical testing. There are definitely illnesses classed as idiopathic and non pscyhe related, people get diagnosed as such and that’s it. Nobody makes them go to a shrink to cure them.