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I do like rain cloud plots though :thumbup:

Selvakumar is a pediatrician, so if Garner wanted he could have met a multidisciplinary team of Norwegian PhD's with a biopsychosocial view of the illness.

Not surprising from those authors. The LOTECA controls could also be close contacts to the covid positive participants, and even have respiratory infection symptoms as long as they did not test positive for covid-19. Despite the author team having been told repeatedly by multiple persons that...

Mine was also IgG. Apparently there was an outbreak at the hospital when I was born, but I had seemingly not been one if the babies infected. My mother was very surprised I had antibodies and could think of no other place I could have been exposed than that hospital outbreak.

I didn't either when I first got sick. I did have CMV antibodies though.

There is a list of 10 things muscle-and-pain patients (MUPP) in Norway want (translated by me): What treatments prevent long-term muscle/pain illness? How is quality of health affected by long term pain? Is the prevalence of intestinal problems higher in individuals with MUPP? What explains...

The argument that there is a lack of guidance on enteral / parenteral feeding skips the part explaining why these patients need a different approach than others who are unable to feed themselves. When there are symptoms like pain present that interferes with feeding, it is the common approach to...

With all the talk of predisposing and maintaining factors, this study has some interesting findings, such as: "Perceived" here refers to self-reported health, objective the self-reported number of chronic illnesses. This one really gets me :laugh: This was interesting. The population studied...

Abstract Background It remains an open question how changes in predisposing, enabling, and need factors affect health care use. Consequently, we aimed to investigate how changes in these variables affect health care use in community-dwelling older persons longitudinally. Methods Data from two...

People who self report poor health likely have poor health. Shocking to some, apparently ;) Forskning.no has an article about this study, where one of the take-aways is that patients who self report poor health may be noticing early signs of illness or have a high risk of illness. LINK (In...

Abstract Purpose We investigated the association between self-rated health (SRH) and cancer incidence and SRH and all-cause mortality among Norwegian women. Population and Methods We used data from 110,104 women in the Norwegian Women and Cancer (NOWAC) cohort aged 41–70 years at baseline. We...

How is it that being «dysregulated» can be fixed, but being «broken» can’t? This reminds me of being told as a teen to not use the word «problem» as it was better to say «challenge». Because «we can find solutions to challenges». That my generation grew up with Norwegian children’s stories with...

An issue I don’t know how could be accounted for is that someone who is vaccinated may be less likely to say their symptoms are related to a covid infection. After all they are vaccinated and so «safe» from harms from covid.

I've noticed lately I'm a very judgemental patient. If someone goes "we follow the latest guidelines" or something similar I immediately think they are not sure of the facts and I've annoyed them by not agreeing to whatever was said.

Another problem as an academic is that you don't always have the space to go into all the results, and unexpected side effects might not make it into the abstract or the title so they would quite possibly not be picked up by others looking for that topic. Writing about the unexpected side...

If they were doing something, why not just say so?

At least some of the health registries in Norway are working on automating data retrieval from health journals. I'm not sure if the work will end with only retrieving coding like G93.3, or if phrases such as "ME/CFS" could be translated to G93.3 by the data retrieval system.

Anything the health care worker believe is ridiculous can be weaponized against the patient, regardless of the evidence base behind it. For example I've never met a patient with meat allergy who has not experienced ridicule by their GP for daring to suggest such a thing as a meat allergy exist...

Don’t forget «self correcting». Science is bleak.

No, I just think I reacted to who you defined as the people who could see the issue and didn't intend to quarrel on the rest :) I'm in a bit of a bad mood as I've had the pleasure of being told off in healthcare with "all our decisions are evidence based" and "we follow the latest research"...