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It doesn't matter what the actual number was. They were Reviewer 2 because that's the meme for that one inexplicably bad review. https://amlbrown.com/2015/11/10/how-not-to-be-reviewer-2/ https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Reviewer%202

This. I agree that the way this is currently interpreted is incorrect. I read a paper by Fukuda (not the actual diagnostic criteria, but a later paper) where he explains that the reason for talking about not improving with rest was to distinguish from things like overtraining syndrome (not sure...

Probably because a gyn can be a primary care doctor (and I guess OB because it tends to run with gyn. If you go to a urogynecologist that's now considered a specialist and not eligible to be a PCP, or requires a referral if your insurance asks for those.)

Apologies if I missed someone else responding to this in a long thread. I can understand why this is confusing because CDC partially updated their website (with the help of CFSAC, orgs, advocates) to incorporate some of the IOM material. Prior to the update, the page was really bad and...

But of course, because any concerns about the trial's conduct could never be correct. It was a thing of beauty. The definitive trail that got where it was always meant to go. How could there be any real concerns? smh

Hi, welcome to the forum. First, I am not a doctor. As a patient I find it useful to search my test results and double-check that my doctor isn't missing something. Or sometimes the doctor will be confused what to do, like you're finding. I put a some links I found helpful in previous posts...

yeah, that's a good point. Maybe they're still trying to make the patient fix the problem when it's not a patient-caused problem.

to counter all that IPAT and somatic symptoms stuff, here's a study on a possible way to counter diagnostic overshadowing and get care for physical conditions even when their healthcare team doesn't care because (in the view of the doc) "it's only depression" (or whatever)

https://pilotfeasibilitystudies.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s40814-019-0396-7 Williams, Julie et al. "Evaluation Of A Physical Health Plan For People With Psychosis: A Protocol For A Quality Improvement Study". Pilot And Feasibility Studies, vol 5, no. 1, 2019. Springer Nature...

I knew I forgot something, but I couldn't work out what it was. Thanks for digging up the link, @Hutan .

Extract (paragraph breaks added): Increasingly, however, EBM researchers have reached the conclusion that one implementation model does not fit all and that, instead, a series of overlapping implementation strategies best target specific groups. 34 Consequently, a multi-faceted approach to...

I'm actually baffled by the change as well. I can perhaps explain the original reasoning. Antibiotic resistance is not (or typically not) coded in the core DNA for bacteria. It's in an "extra" DNA section, known as a plasmid, which is picked up from another microbe (perhaps originally a yeast)...

I was prescribed a low dose of TCAs (I tried both amitriptylene, and, to show cooperation, against my better judgment, also nortriptylene). Neither helped even a little, and they gave me more pain, actually, and made me feel "on edge". Kind of the exact opposite of intended. Not technically an...

Unfortunately not. Loads of other people have seen them (even a medical assistant, recently, who said I was "freaking [her] out" as she apparently thought I was going to faint [which I didn't feel was likely--my fainting reflex is broken but I didn't even have presyncope particularly]). I have...

Sure, but it might be better to pick our emotional appeals and stories. We don't need to play into the ones set out by people who have no interest in our welfare. So could talk about the science (or progress towards getting science), and also do whatever PR campaign we like, but sidestep any...

I don't really have tender points, either. Before that some doctors would diagnose "myofascial pain syndrome" if the tender point criteria wasn't met. Others would go ahead and give the fibro diagnosis. However the latest fibromyalgia definition got rid of the tender point criteria. In my...

I thought agencies were deleting things to save server space, but mainly things 2+ years old.

Not sure anyone fully does. Especially right now. But we do know that: The largest research funder in the US (also the largest funder worldwide) is the US NIH NIH is nominally accountable to Congress (although Congress is not good at managing federal agencies, and it's not considered that...

Well, he serves on the board of the organization that awarded the John Maddox prize. So it could be seen as giving himself an award. (Although it could have been getting one or more BFFs to do it, too.)

I always hope they do. They might learn something. ;)