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  1. Arnie Pye

    Coronavirus - worldwide spread and control

    With the talk of banishing people aged 70+ to stay in their own homes for four months I actually wonder what the score will be at the end of that time when comparing the numbers who starved to death and those who died of coronavirus.
  2. Arnie Pye

    IAPT requests addition of DSM-5's Somatic symptom disorder (SSD) to SNOMED CT for use in Data Set v2.0 to replace "MUS - not otherwise specified"

    My addition to the above three criteria : Whether the concept is useful to patients is of no interest or relevance to anyone so don't worry about it It is important to remember that being able to pull the wool over patients' eyes is an integral and vital part of the naming process
  3. Arnie Pye

    Coronavirus - worldwide spread and control

    I was in Lidl today, around 6pm, and it was the most packed I've ever seen it. I wondered what the logic of that was in relation to the virus issue, and I still haven't worked it out.
  4. Arnie Pye

    Cooking with Corona - coping with power cuts

    For finding a gas bottle supplier this link might help : https://www.calor.co.uk/gas-bottles/retailers Camping shops may be a good source. It is also possible that some coal and/or log merchants may also sell gas bottles. And also possibly petrol stations.
  5. Arnie Pye

    Cooking with Corona - coping with power cuts

    Years ago my husband and I had a three bar fire which ran off a large calor gas bottle. We just used it as an extra source of heat on top of the central heating because our house was very poorly insulated at the time. What took us by surprise was the upfront cost of buying the first gas...
  6. Arnie Pye

    Coronavirus - worldwide spread and control

    An interesting article dated 31/01/2020 about the US response to coronavirus : https://foreignpolicy.com/2020/01/31/coronavirus-china-trump-united-states-public-health-emergency-response/ And another one which mentions test kits ...
  7. Arnie Pye

    Coronavirus - worldwide spread and control

    I just read this twitter thread about the situation with coronavirus in northern Italy : https://twitter.com/jasonvanschoor/status/1237142891077697538 People don't need a twitter account in order to read public twitter threads.
  8. Arnie Pye

    General thread on functional disorders in Denmark

    I never cease to find it amazing that so many members of the medical profession manage to make a living out of being useless diagnosticians. Not only do they make an excellent living out of being so useless they manage to blame the damn patients for the uselessness of the doctors as well...
  9. Arnie Pye

    Ketogenic diet

    How can ingesting fat make you exhausted?
  10. Arnie Pye

    You've made the diagnosis of functional neurological disorder: now what? (2018) Perez et al

    I see that FND Portal overcomes his/her lack of replies to his/her tweets by replying to him/herself over and over and over again.
  11. Arnie Pye

    You've made the diagnosis of functional neurological disorder: now what? (2018) Perez et al

    They've largely solved the problem of autopsies showing up that the doctor was wrong and the patient was really ill by cutting down dramatically on the number of autopsies that are done in the UK. I'm sure that someone diagnosed with FND would be bottom of the pile for an autopsy if they had...
  12. Arnie Pye

    Difficulties of living with an illness not considered a 'Disease': Focusing on the illness behavior of ME/CFS, 2020, Nojima

    In my opinion... Any patient who is classed as being a "doctor-shopper" by an average doctor is disliked because doctors don't like to believe that any of their number can be utterly useless. But sadly, 50% of doctors are less capable than the average doctor.
  13. Arnie Pye

    Anyone have trouble writing by hand?

    Me too. I won a ballpoint pen and a certificate. The competition was run by or sponsored by the pen company Platignum. The pen never worked! I think I still have the certificate in the loft somewhere.
  14. Arnie Pye

    Anyone have trouble writing by hand?

    I've had an intermittent problem for years with writing, that is getting worse the older I get and the less practice I have at it. (I have very little reason to write these days.) I can start writing and suddenly I'll lose control of my arm and hand and I will just scribble. If you imagine...
  15. Arnie Pye

    BBC Trust me I'm a Doctor - mention MUS in piece about Endemetriosis 19 Feb 2020

    For the article about endometriosis it starts at 22:58.
  16. Arnie Pye

    Cleaning tips and recommendations for cleaning products

    Because I'm permanently unwell (I'm not bedridden, but I am frequently housebound) I struggle with cleaning my house. I'm not, and never have been, a neat freak or cleaning obsessive - and it shows. I wondered if people could pass on their tips on how to make the job of cleaning anything a bit...
  17. Arnie Pye

    London Deaths and Casualties - 1632 AD

    I assumed it must be a misspelling of something I wouldn't recognise so didn't actually google it. Oops.
  18. Arnie Pye

    London Deaths and Casualties - 1632 AD

    I wonder what "planet" is or was? Anyone have any ideas?
  19. Arnie Pye

    London Deaths and Casualties - 1632 AD

    Chrisomes and infants 2268 I'm wondering what a chrisome is, and all I can think of is possibly a baby or a young child which cried a lot because it was suffering from a serious disease and was in dreadful pain. Horrifying and very sad thought.
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