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Strange you should say that. I came across a paper by George Torrance who seems to have set up the department at McMaster from which the GRADE system would seem to have emanated. My reaction was that that was not someone I would want anywhere near my medical care. On the other hand, were I the...

When he was writing his blogs as a patient he generally received the sympathy to which he was entitled. When he offered his professional opinion that people should ignore a substantial part of the evidence available he received a response which he probably expected. If professionals fall below...

There is a non too subtle distinction. Patients are patients. Professionals are supposed to be "professional".

It is useful to have examples of evidence based opinion making as ininterpreted by the EBM school." I don't like the decision therefor the decision maker must have been conflicted." How exactly? What other interests were involved? Of course he might have to be careful in what he woofs.

It would be of no evidential value. They could hardly say that they were. Anyone making such a claim should show their corroborative evidence. The fact that NICE came to conclusions which some interested parties do not like is not evidence of pressure by one party. If the decision were now...

This sounds like exactly the sort of idea that Eisenberg and Kleinmann were expressing from the ivy-clad walls of Harvard in the 1970's and 80's.

It makes one wonder what conversations must be like in the Wessely/Gerrada household when CG seems to be supporting these doctors in everything to which SW was opposed.

I realise that I have a revisionist view of history, but I would argue that te "ME-BPS" model has been fully mainstream internationally since at least 1985. The model is clearly based on the "illness behaviour model" discussed at the international conference in Toronto. The major participants...

Some of these "Dr" titles must be confusing in some contexts. Archaeologists are not generally known for their specialist knowledge of matters medical.

I thought that that was exactly what they did.

Good point. Does he not then have a competing interest which should have been declared?

He is an old man.

Very clever. The one, Busse,who is first named seems to be the only one, apart from PG, not directly associated with GRADE. He seems instead to have an interest in "insurance medicine". It is however rather confusing. PG does not seem to appear in the competing interests section. However...

This would seem to be Jason Busse. Busse, Jason (mcmaster.ca) I wonder whether there are any conflicts of interst to declare.

Mansell Aylward.

I wonder why she thinks it necessary to say these things "loud and clear". Does she think we are recalcitrant children or imbeciles? It is a very strange and unpersuasive way to address a potentially hostile audience. The odd thing is that she appears to be making similar points to what we made...

@dave30th on another thread you indicated uncertainty as to the relevance of Imboden Canter and Cluff, and also Eisenberg. I presumed that you were being a little disingenuous but was going to reply there when this thread came up. Wallitt seems to indicate that Evans work on chronic brucellosis...

I just had a quick look at that. First thoughts are that I don't like the reference to Archer. Memory tells me that he was an East Anglia GP strongly influenced by psychiatric views. I will check on that. They would have done better to quote Behans 1988 paper. My second thought is that it is...

The message one gets from the BMJ is that patients should only listen to the advice they want to hear. Can they sink any lower?

I have come across references to close working relationships being developed by John Wing who headed the Social Psychiatry unit of the Maudsley with Danish and Dutch researchers as well as those in the US.