" :I'm sure the phrase ""medically unexplained symptoms"" goes back a lot farther than the '70s...it's an easy enough series of words to put together in a medical setting. But we can't build an article about a random phrase, so the question becomes: When was it used to indicate a specific category of illnesses? I have no idea if Slavney was the first to do so or not, but I think that we're confounding the phrase with an actual category. A common phrase is probably not notable by Wikipedia standards; a medical category might be if it's in wide use. So I think we need to identify when this phrase was first
" :I'm sure the phrase ""medically unexplained symptoms"" goes back a lot farther than the '70s...it's an easy enough series of words to put together in a medical setting. But we can't build an article about a random phrase, so the question becomes: When was it used to indicate a specific category of illnesses? I have no idea if Slavney was the first to do so or not, but I think that we're confounding the phrase with an actual category. A common phrase is probably not notable by Wikipedia standards; a medical category might be if it's in wide use. So I think we need to identify when this phrase was first used