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Unless somebody can point to a detailed description of some process to which the words allude, this would appear to be a study of the words "the Lightning Process".

And that he was an early member of Campaign against Health Fraud, later Health Watch, alongside such as Caroline Richmond and Simon Wessely, which appears to have exceeded its original remit of pursuing the quacks who preyed on gullible invalids to pursuing the invalids themselves. This may...

Nonsense (sorry SimonM. Don't mean you.) "One of the chief functions of therapy at this stage", Wessely and colleagues say," is to allow the patients to call a halt without loss of face...... The report ( the 1989 Wessely David Chalder Butler report) advises telling patients they don't have a...

Good to see the spirit surviving in adversity.

Is that response from Powis coherent? One can only hope that someone else drafted it and that he signed it at the end of a long day.

It will depend on who wins.

How times change. Quoted from above: Wessely: Cancer patients do not lobby for psychologists because they believe that psychological factors are why they developed cancer in the first place (which is certainly progress given that in previous times there have been scientists who have made those...

Be fair, one at least was quite powerful in terms of carrying the message to the patients.

What I have never understood is why people insist in describing fatigue as merely a set of subjective experiences without any relation to, or association with, the accompanying reduction of physical or mental capacity. They may say that these are not measurable, but they are observable. People...

I don't think we should be critical of this letter. There is a balancing act to perform. If you tell people to find a baseline and then not seek to increase activity in some ways you will be accused, perhaps not unreasonably, of encouraging exercise avoidance.

They look to have "international clinics" in Australia, Denmark, Germany and Poland.

But when it comes to psychiatric conditions: (ii) Patients with a current diagnosis of schizophrenia, manic depressive illness, substance abuse, eating disorder or proven organic brain disease. Other psychiatric disorders (including depressive illness, anxiety disorders, and hyperventilation...

Who were the peer reviewers?

Is she arguing that strokes, pulmonary embolisms and cardiac damage are characteristic of a majority of post covid syndrome? There clearly are such cases and categorisation will no doubt be difficult. But what about the other cases?

On reflection I have found this paper immensely valuable, not because of what it says-I pretty much gave up on it with the "coding" metaphor- but for where it leads in terms of understanding. We have been led down the track of psychiatrisation of ME back through personal vulnerability...

It was merely an upgrade from the ME(1) clinic to the ME(2) clinic.

Amantadine was ried in ME. I don't know whether there was ever a trial, but it was not beneficial.

I think this is what is called an "evidence based approach". There is some evidence for this, so it can be extrapolated to all cases.

Well I think it's complete bollocks. EDIT that is a technical term

If a patient was missing 25% or less of the data from any questionnaire, a prorated score was calculated (this used the mean of the remaining items from the same individual to calculate a prorated score). Why not just make it all up as you go along? What science is there to validate this as a...