On Saturday, March 4, Prince Harry sat down with trauma expert, Dr Gabor Maté to discuss elements from his memoir Spare. However, after some of his statements and so on, the doctor has been labelled as unethical.
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Expert knows about the Royal Family thanks to The Crown
One of the comments that Dr Maté said was that he knew about the ‘royal melodrama’ as he had seen The Crown. Royal commentator, Richarch Fitzwilliams tweeted the statement, and many called the expert out, saying that The Crown isn’t a documentary. Fitzwilliams added that Dr Maté ‘sounded really serious’ with the statement.
One user wrote:
Good grief imagine thinking that the Netflix drama The Crown was anything other than fiction it's deeply disturbing that he didn't actually do some research!
Watching Harry with Dr Gabor talking about curing trauma & loss. We are already hearing from Dr Gabor about how emotionally dysfunctional the RF are. He says he knows about the “royal melodrama” he’s seen The Crown. He should know most of that is fiction! pic.twitter.com/8D7LAiaInS
— Richard Fitzwilliams (@RFitzwilliams) March 4, 2023
Another questioned whether or not Dr Maté thought that The Crown was a documentary instead of the drama series it is.
Another user added:
Oh bless him ...a supposedly educated man , basing his knowledge of a dysfunctional family on a fictional TV drama ? Yeah, that sounds legitimate
The fact that he is supposedly claiming his knowledge of the Royal Family on a Netflix drama, but also he tried to diagnose Prince Harry live.
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Expert diagnosed Prince Harry live
Normally there is something called patient confidentiality, meaning doctors of any kind are not permitted to share any medical information with others. Indeed Dr Maté said he had diagnosed Prince Harry with ADHDafter reading his memoir.
The ADHD Foundation Neurodiversity Charity has said that Dr Maté’s decision to diagnose Prince Harry after one public interview was ‘neither ethical or appropriate.’ Dr Maté had said:
Reading the book, I diagnose you with ADD....I see it as a normal response to normal stress.
Gabor Mate-it is neither ethical nor appropriate to tell someone for the first time,- in a public interview, that they have ADHD. @DrGaborMate It is for the individual to decide whether to disclose their Neurodiversity. @SussexroyalUhttps://t.co/oDXUSnelVu
— ADHD Foundation Neurodiversity Charity (@ADHDFoundation) March 4, 2023
Again, many took to Twitter to call out Dr Maté especially since he supposedly diagnosed the Duke of Sussex after reading his memoir, which was written by a ghostwriter and edited:
Agree, also has Mate spent enough time with Harry to diagnose him? If he's only read his book and then met him in the interview, that's extremely surface level to diagnose......
Moreover, Dr Maté claimed that ADD can be ‘healed at any age’ but it is a neurological disorder that cannot be cured, simply managed:
I think is totally irresponsible for him to diagnose Harry without any proper testing; furthermore, to say that ADD can be “cured”; which is absolutely not true, on such a public platform. Charlatans both of them.
Sources used:
Daily Mail: 'I felt different to the rest of my family - and my mum felt the same': Prince Harry opens up on his 'broken home' upbringing saying parents rowing in front of children 'is not a good idea' - but FAILS to mention William once in 90min toxic trauma chat’
