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. 2017 May;67(658):204. doi: 10.3399/bjgp17X690797

Medically unexplained symptoms

Fiona French 1
PMCID: PMC5409411  PMID: 28450326

I am concerned about the use of the term ‘MUS’.1 As a patient suffering from iatrogenic harm resulting from withdrawal from a benzodiazepine after 40 years’ consumption, I am unable to find a doctor willing to acknowledge the true cause of my current state of neurological disability. I therefore am collecting a myriad of spurious diagnoses such as depression and ME/CFS. This only serves to compound my distress. ‘MUS’ seems to be another potential dumping ground for the many patients harmed due to prescribed drug dependence and withdrawal, thereby diverting attention away from the real problem.

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