[kerowak]

The criticism is that the claims of the patient are not adequately verified by the prescribing doctor. Some people have to undergo a lengthy doctor-administered screening process to receive an ADHD diagnosis. Others fill out a straightforward questionnaire. To use your example, you'd hope that a doctor would verify that a patient actually had something wrong with them before, say, prescribing them something addictive like painkillers.

[bpodgursky]

What would more hoops possibly accomplish other than denying care to real patients through attrition and exhaustion? It's trivial for a person to lie in an interview as easily as on a questionaire.