Re Roy's testimony & sectioning: it was the social worker from the previous day's testimony, I think, who conflated the two things originally....
A thoughtful piece in the Herald telling the story from Melvin Ramsay to Edina Slayter-Engelsman to Maeve: "The Scottish doctor who tried to...
And the "novel methodology" is... using DevonAgent. I use this a lot; it's basically a tool that queries lots of different search engines and then...
And another in the Daily Mail:...
Some coverage in the Guardian ("GP who treated woman with severe ME tells inquest more funding is needed"):...
A quest to manage CYP with ME/CFS and long covid under one MDT service – evaluation of a regional centre for CYP ME/CFS and long covid services...
Blackburn also said that he believed that the Leeds unit had closed - without going back to my notes, from memory, I think he said that although...
Now I have seen Dr W's letter not only was the advice not well founded but I am sorry to say it does not make much sense either. He suggested...
Some media coverage of today's testimony - BBC: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cger8kdgdldo and ITV News:...
Some coverage of today's testimony in the Telegraph:...
Intestinal failure mainly. It's usually considered the last resort when patients cannot be adequately fed enterally.
Social services safeguarding witness, Sarah Leech (now Clarke), joined via Teams. Didn't seem to have access to the relevant documents and a great...
Beth Thompson, dietician. * A lot of discussion about specific calories & nutritional levels at different times. Concerns with inadequate...
The first witness was Dr Fox. * Was asked if he believes ME was a real condition; asked for clarification on what was meant by "real". Stated...
Thanks for the kind words, Trish & others - I've found if I rest well in advance of these, stay lying down, rest completely in the breaks, do...
Inquest now on a five-minute break after the testimony of Dr Fox; will be hearing Beth Thompson next. Also apparently a statement has been...
I actually thought 45 degrees was the typical standard and was puzzled at the talk of 30 degrees! BTW I wasn't well enough to listen in on the...
Will try and respond to this very thoughtful comment more thoroughly tomorrow, but just a few brief points - I do remember bed-management teams...
Something that came up in today's testimony from Blackburn (the community dietician): he referenced a document he was familiar with about ME/CFS...
Thanks! Agree that he was brainstorming there and that he was correct in fearing a "tragic outcome", but there were a few things he said that did...
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