The doctor's dismissal of the boy's condition ("That’s a made-up disease") is in the same key of some of the discussion yesterday in "When dying patients want unproven drugs"
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36393327It is shameful that so much of the medical establishment rejects evidence that hasn't been peer reviewed and published. It's even more shameful when juxtaposed with the acceptance of evidence that has been peer-reviewed and published, but is nevertheless unreliable.
To say that inflammation from an infection is "made up" while also claiming that "psychiatric drugs and talk therapy are backed up by decades of robust scientific evidence," despite the replication failure—or just bad math—in so much of psych, is positively medieval.
