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First shot of Pfizer yesterday afternoon. My arm was a bit stiff last night and still is, but not sore enough to take painkillers. Otherwise I feel fine!

Sorry - i know the US uses Speech Language Pathologist (SLP) - a lot of the world uses Speech Language Therapist (SLT). @Peter Trewhitt Re the authors of this article - Lesley Cavalli is a voice specialist - I remember her name from my student days. I used to do some voice therapy when I was...

As an SLT, I’m appalled to see this.

I actually think this is appalling that these biases against patients are built into the JD for the role…

There’s something extremely appropriate about the fact that P White is affiliated with an Institute of Preventative Medicine.... just think how many people he has prevented from accessing medicine over the years.

I can still recall pre-illness days of waking up and feeling like I could jump out of bed and heading straight off for a run... No way do I have that feeling of ‘energy’ ever now. I also fatigue much more quickly. The fatigue affects everything - physical and mental. If I try to push through...

This shows to me how entrenched the ‘functional’ view is in ORL for people with voice disorders. SLTs who only see voice disorders dont know what to make of the neurological signs and so they ‘diagnose’ according to their expectations rather than what is actually being presented. When I was...

That makes me embarrassed to be an SLT.... 1/ doing worse during testing isn’t a sign of a functional overlay, just doing worse when stressed, or when concentrating on something, and what makes the SLT think that they can diagnose a functional overlay??? Seems like the SLT didn’t know much about...

248 pounds to go until @Jonathan Edwards can have elevenses....

N=1... as some of you may know already, I had surgical extraction of two left wisdom teeth at the end of March. The top one healed fine - the bottom one not so good! I had been having pain for several months - multiple courses of antibiotics and certainly this led me to feel more exhausted than...

https://www.justgiving.com/crowdfunding/keithgeraghty Currently at 70% of target....

Donated.... I hope he reaches his target.

https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/hospital-wards-are-filling-up-again-with-fakers This article - which I think you can view without a subscription as a one-off - is written by a hospital doctor under a pseudonym. It’s not a recommendation..........

Been paid - donated! Thanks David....:thumbup:

Are there any situations where the behavioural component results in something other than a heightened reflex? I’m thinking along the lines of fainting, vomiting etc...

So sorry to hear that... :hug:

Up to 20% of the total now! https://crowdfund.berkeley.edu/project/25504

N=1 but my partner had an undiagnosed perforated appendix. I insisted he needed antibiotics and then insisted he needed more. The hole in his appendix was discovered some months later. He still has problems years later due to suspected adhesions. I’m suspicious that this is simply a money-saving...

CCIS Tauranga are very short of board members I think. They have been advertising for some time. They have had quite a staff change-over too in the past couple of years. Not sure what is going on or whether it is positive change! Hopefully so....

I have to say I dont understand the appeal of McDonald’s... I’ve never eaten a Big Mac or any other beef burger from any of those chains. When lockdown lifted in NZ, McDonald’s had queues around the block at 3am and ran out of food. People bought bucket loads of food and ate until they were...