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It's pretty mild but I have rarely seen open criticism of Simon Wessely in UK medical circles. Is the king's naked butt starting to show? Maybe a crack in the armor? (pun very intended) New NICE guideline: antidepressants and chronic pain — chicken or egg? https://bjgp.org/content/71/708/320...

Prevalence of post-COVID-19 symptoms in hospitalized and non-hospitalized COVID-19 survivors: A systematic review and meta-analysis Pre-print (or whatever else "online ahead of print means"): https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34167876/ Aim Single studies support the presence of several...

One of the articles was already published (although it's paywalled) but Long Covid is this week's cover topic at New Scientist. https://www.newscientist.com/issue/3340/

A rapid response by Charles Shepherd has been published: https://www.bmj.com/content/373/bmj.n1559/rr-0.

In this bizarre text which obviously serves no purpose but to attack us for no other reason than we exist, Godlee actually referred to and linked to Chew-Graham's article on the horrible consequences of gaslighting to long haulers and that's just such a bizarre mobius strip of confused...

Maybe that's a hint to that but I remember a few months ago Henrik posted a weird thread responding to someone with Long Covid telling them that if they ever are near Oxford they should go see Sharpe and have a chat with him about this whole recovering from fatigue thing. I assume Henrik and...

It's marked as commissioned to the BMJ so they had to solicit and pay for it, no other explanation. Which itself is inexplicable given how poor of a job it does at summarizing the facts, this is not journalism, not the regular kind and even less scientific. But more importantly it is also...

Somehow, Fiona Godlee has published an op-ed (it's linked a few comments down) with no purpose other than to attack us. Just like there is no clear point being made in this commissioned text here, Godlee's text has no point or substance, seems only to be a vehicle to attack us. None of this is...

Uhhhh. Words. Meaning. Do they simply not matter anymore? Gauging everything on ICU setting is absurd.

I don't understand why they only got 7 studies out of this. There are hundreds of them going back decades, including years of use in standard practice in many countries. What kind of joke profession is this? A field in a perpetual state of amnesia where neither criticism not accountability...

More could have been made of the fact that Horton's behavior towards critics of the Wakefield paper has been the same as with PACE. A pattern of misbehavior means a lot here, especially what it implies for PACE, that he's wrong about it. But whatever it's starting to show the cracks in the armor.

Looks like the use of a limited denominator is all the rage these days. When standards are lowered all you get in outcome is lowered standards. Long covid military rehab programme 'helping to save careers' https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-nottinghamshire-57599256 Look at the sleights of...

Full paper is out: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34162913/.

‘Your body just stops’: long Covid sufferers face new ordeals as sick pay runs out https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/jun/24/your-body-just-stops-long-covid-sufferers-face-new-ordeals-as-sick-pay-runs-out Nurses, teachers and shopworkers who have lost their health and their jobs talk about...

Noticing a slowly growing number of MDs calling out to the void.

Obviously the idea that a shady professor of medicine just volunteers work for a giant insurance company that just happens to repackage those ideas to make money is beyond laughable.