Abdominal Pain
Abstract
Abstract Sir.—I would like to comment regarding Dr Lebenthal's article "Recurrent Abdominal Pain in Childhood" (Journal 134:347-348, 1980). As a clinician, I am repeatedly distressed to find that so many physicians who discuss abdominal pain find solace in the medical scrap basket called psychosomatic illness. I am sure that such problems are at times psychosomatic, but I believe that this diagnosis is made too frequently to mask our own inadequacies in diagnosis. The...