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[Bucky Ball]

My friend, I am a provider. And I think I know my business well enough 

Well so am I, and it's very curious that the very thing you point to as a weakness of the tool, is actually a strength.
Patients don't like this shit. They hate paperwork. Things like the PHQ often end up in the waste-basket, in the lobby. 

If they were handed a tool that listed every single symptom of depression anyone ever reported, they would toss it back at the nurse as they burst out laughing. 

It's also very curious you can offer no improvements or suggestions or alternatives. 

The thing is, the tool has actual research behind it. That means that in the data analysis phase of the studies, all the symptoms they looked at, 
had to be statistically significant for the sample. That means, that the criticism you raised, you ought to know, would not be one of the 
questions, as it would be an outlier. 

So you were actually correct about the outlier symptoms not being listed, and that would be assurance the data analysis was done correctly, and it's actually 
a good thing.