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This thing where "a primary symptom" or a "differentiating symptom" has to be found seems to have completely warped medicine's ability to move ahead from acute card and onto chronic care. Common symptoms of illness are common in people who are ill. This is obviously consistent with illness...

Literally have one job and it's this job. This is why minimal standards have to be made into law and no one is above being told what's right and wrong. Medicine having had its own special track separate from the rest of society has bred a culture of complacency based on "doctor knows best"...

So, they looked at some random association, found none, then made-up their own by doing a "study" aimed to do that? That's BPS/FND alright. I am noticing a growing ease with equating FND and BPS as essentially meaning the same thing. This BS about a complex interaction between basically all the...

Actually, there may be a point that this is not, in fact, research. It just pretends to be, while not bothering in substance. So it's not really clear which rules apply. Usually it's no rules apply and it's still considered research so I assume the tradition will continue. It's good to eat your...

Looking forward to the "Gut whisperer" show on TLC. Is there a ghost in the gut? Let's find out. It can talk!

They talk so much and say so little. Every argument they make is egocentric and just the same old recycled garbage. Everything about themselves, for themselves, by themselves. Mediocre.

Absurd that we are in the peak era of medical pseudoscience, but this is what happens when medical pseudoscience is made official and standards have to be lowered down to nothing to make it seem legitimate. This is for all intents and purposes the same as any of the standard BPS treatments. And...

Wait, it's the GRADE guidance group basically writing flowers about themselves? Or in support of Cochrane? Or of Cochrane using GRADE? This mutual admiration society sure is very admiring of everything about itself.

Everyone's an activist, most just haven't lived the experience to make it come out yet. There is mention of a group of physicians with LC that are baffled by the BPS chokehold on the issue. Seemingly out there, not talking in public, until yesterday. This is not very useful, silence will not...

This is really baffling. I can't imagine as an information specialist agreeing to work with data that is only 80% correct. I wouldn't even agree to 99% correct if the data set is large enough, especially with an effect so trivial that chance can explain all of it. When you have invalid data...

Lots of donations are set to the end of the month, it usually picks up by the end. I haven't made mine yet, I usually only do donations and finances in the last week of the month.

So the starting position of medicine was: absolutely not, this is not even a thing, we're not even looking at this. Ever. Then it was: we're not seeing it in our immediate environment, doesn't exist. Then it was: it's not overflowing healthcare services, also it still doesn't exist. Now we...

Not that such results are any reliable, but given this is the nth confirmation that there is simply no difference between "highly-trained", lightly-trained, or simply replaced by an interactive pamphlet, how does it even make sense to employ people to do CBT? And here basically just as useless...

Annoying. If that were true then alternative medicine would work and of course it doesn't. I don't understand how people can reconcile this obvious contradiction. If this placebo effect were so powerful it would basically work all the time for basically anything as long as the ritual of...

Post-cancer (or cancer treatment) chronic illness seems relatively common. It's such a loss that we don't have any numbers on this, it could lead to significant clues. Literally no way tell how common it is, there is a complete void of data on this. As a choice. What a waste.

Make sure to begin boarding up your house and stock up on supplies as soon as the eye of the hurricane has arrived. Be quick about it you have 1h tops before the other eye wall strikes, and maybe a lot less. It's very important to be prepared, do not look up the meaning of that word, it totally...

Yes, those are commonly called treatments. Self-management of illness is exactly like self-management of poverty: it should be called enduring, no one is "managing" this, it's only the negligence of medicine that leaves the entire issue of illness so unaddressed that almost everything written by...

Darn. Biological reductionism strikes again. *BPSers shake fist angrily at the universe* It's weird how the people who talk about "biological reductionism" in medicine apply it to the whole of biology, which is gigantic, but not at the extremely flimsy thinking of "those tests here all show...

And yet, actual quote from the man-in-charge, because it keeps revolting me: In response to someone asking him whether the PACE subjective "benefits" could be placebo. Literally the comparison for "no effect". I will be forever amazed at the mediocrity of this nonsense being actually believed...

I put it in my will: no organ donation. I don't know. Maybe it won't do any harm. I just don't know. No one does.