I am sure the explanation for that omission from their considerations is entirely innocent. A brief functional glitch in their software, no...
Yeah, I want to know this too. What exactly have they achieved by this methodological sleight-of-hand? Was the patient's life improved in any...
Yep. Software-hardware is not wetware (biology). Not even close. One of the most inappropriate analogies I have ever seen. –––––– "We may at...
Wessely & Co – the psychosomatic club – are among the most protected of all human species I have ever seen. Even the highest levels of medical...
The Goldilocks theory of disease, and how to cure it.
They want to append that diagnosis to literally every other diagnostic category. That is why the BPS club have been pushing the whole...
cognitive deconditioning So why doesn't cognitive function in ME improve with use, but instead get worse (particularly if sufficient recovery...
I had a colonoscopy in December, and followed the bowel clearing protocol to the letter. All I got for my troubles was an "average" for...
What about relentless causal misattribution? Does that play any part?
Nor more irrelevant to patients' real lives. Not reporting effect size is always a red flag for me. Reporting it should be compulsory. Ditto for...
Having been born, raised, and lived my life in the steamy monsoon tropics, I can tell you that the answer is already known, and easy. Do nothing,...
BACME, whatever they are, are not our friends. They should be disbanded.
And the practical value of this on stamina, physical capacity, employment, welfare use, etc, is...? The most significant thing about this study...
I am still masking up almost every time I leave the house. No plans to stop doing it any time soon. Certainly not before we get much vaccines that...
Good article. Recovery stories are a common comorbidity of any intractable illness. Good line. ME/cfs and Long Covid are similar enough in...
Or worse.
I think Wessely's first degree was in art history too. This. Both the 'poisoned' feeling, and the deep immediate recognition that something was...
Some have built glorious careers and empires and status and awards cabinets from it. Not to mention well above average incomes. Which is why they...
Vector Based Medicine. So what you like about it, but at least it isn't Evidence Based Medicine. :sneaky:
Now why isn't this kind of practical advice on official health websites? :grumpy: ––––– Some combination of sweet potato, pumpkin, carrot,...
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