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Really not surprised about the attitudes about depression, still as bad as ever for the most part. Says a lot, the whole pretense about how medicine has changed, when all that's changed is they throw more psychoactive drugs at it, but keep the underlying negative attitudes. It's also notable...

This garbage is the future of medicine. Or at least the future of the parts of medicine that don't work, which is way, way, too many parts. As if the merger of pseudoscience and scientific medicine would ever work out.

Good news? In this economy?

Seems mostly to be the orphan and the siloes. No specialty wants it, and that's how the system is built. There is no plan B for this system, if no one wants it, no one is responsible. The bigger question is why they wanted it in the first place. Given the history of medicine, it was a given...

I'm a Physician Battling Long COVID. I Can Assure You It's Real https://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/983069 So I knew about postexertional malaise (PEM) and postexertional symptom exacerbation (PESE), but I was now experiencing these distressing symptoms firsthand. Clinicians really need to...

Edit: link to the official account tweeting this, lots of good comments already

Yeah this is a common trope. There are differences with the US system but almost all the flaws people point out, aside from the insane costs and insurance companies, are all either just as present in public health systems, or made significantly worst by the lack of choice. The only saving grace...

And let's not forget the fake threatening letter that Crawley had made up. It's said to be representative of something said somewhere, according to known liars, which may as well be the song lyrics above, but no one who makes up a fake threat letter about a vulnerable group has any integrity and...

Reporting of what we're all familiar with. I wouldn't be surprised if this case was recorded as having recovered anyway. "I've been in a wheelchair since the long Covid rehab" URL: https://www.focus.de/gesundheit/news/long-covid-seit-der-reha-sitze-ich-im-rollstuhl_id_166603521.html#/base-data...

Moved post I'm not sure how to submit something, the form asks about experience in Australia, but international contributions are said to be OK.

From what I see coming out of France, it's as bad as in Norway or Denmark. The entire system is obsessed with psychosomatics and considers it a fact as plain as the Earth being round. I haven't seen much that isn't fully this, and what's said privately is even worse. Zero chance this is not bad...

How does that even qualify as "getting help"? The mere act of seeing a "specialist" in sham clinics for a first assessment is not a serious definition of "getting help". That fraction is actually zero, because there is no evidence that anyone with LC is getting any help from those clinics that...

:facepalm: Why would anyone just make their own efforts completely useless by making such poor decisions? I don't get it. This is like building a house out of pudding and thinking it will hold.

What is the acute phase post- of? Post-starting to be sick but still acutely sick? Good grief at least respect the linear passage of time, or something. This is ridiculous to the point of being propaganda. And since the "symptoms" labeled as traumatic stress are common symptoms of not just...

Noting the symbolism of this was pretty good, how life returned to normal the second the protesters moved out of the way. Just like in real life, so quickly ignored it's as if we were never there at all.

I like where this is going. This is smart disinformation countering. Also: the "we will rebuild" chair meme I posted here is well-known and fits well here, symbolizes something that should have been a destructive storm ended up being a small breeze

And I was reminded a few days ago that the death threats seem to have come from a single instance of a comment on PR clearly posting song lyrics. IIRC a Bob Marley song about political oppression? Which is fitting and appropriate. Just like the "trolling" tweets cited in the Reuters report were...

This is a great idea. Only ridicule works against ridicule. They want to pretend they are being assaulted by savage vandals who can barely walk? Let them, all they ever had is the fact that we can't even get out to counter their lies.