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Moved from the Long covid in the media and social media thread Short interview with a pro hockey player for the Vancouver Canucks, who has ben out the whole season with Long Covid. Seems mostly to have significant shortness of breath.

When you literally define more somatization as having more symptoms, people with more symptoms will appear to have more somatization. One could define being smart as having more money if they feel like it, weird biases should not be a factor in science. It makes as much sense as defining...

I'm unable to find a thread for the study. I think it was discussed before, I just can't find it. This is about the Irish-funded exercise study at St-James Hospital that was promoted by the Irish health minister yesterday. Not long ago there was something about a multi-million grant to study...

Double irony to the fact that it won't even do that. So they are paying money, millions it seems, to remain in place, as it won't change anything. Shmart.

I guess I'm staying in Ireland for another post. Where they discuss.... money! It's all about money. Internal emails reveal concerns over welfare supports for long Covid...

Patient groups are reporting unmet needs that only professional healthcare services can provide. They are not provided, this is literally the 1st theme raised. It is constantly discussed on social media, how completely useless healthcare services are, how they don't help, how they gaslight and...

Absolute joke. None of this is even close to be serious.

Honestly, in this case, the question was poorly worded, allowing for a BS answer. The questions are always terrible, so much it's not even useful.

Appears to be the Irish health minister gushing over a... virtual GET program. I guess he must be completely unaware that exercise programs are already what most long haulers are told to do. And probably unaware of anything having to do with the NICE guidelines I also guess a health minister...

Heat intolerance is definitely a thing, also common in LC. It'd be great if it could be studied seriously. Drinking cold water is probably irrelevant in itself, and rather is about the same issue, just inside rather than outside. There have been some attempts with cold immersion therapy as well...

I'm assuming this seminar was reserved to professionals? It's really not getting better.

Comically revealing. Write well, appear witty and get max funding, I guess this looks about as good a description of Wessely's career trajectory and accomplishments. Not much else to be found. Oh, I guess a unhealthy dose of lack of self-awareness, it completes the picture so marvelously.

In this context, vague explicitly means common, as in too common to be helpful in differential diagnosis. So it could be useful to adopt that language, because that's what it means. It's from the perspective of how useful it is to the clinician to diagnose, it's not a qualifier on the symptoms...

Professionally, if I had been made aware of a highly controversial issue pushing some magical solution to a complex problem, finding that in real-life outcomes, literally not a single mention is made of any part of it, despite being the official paradigm, widely believed to be perfect and...

Unless those broken bits all coincidentally happened to have taken the same stringy shapes, this definitely ain't it. Bits that break off do not break off looking like this. Lumpy shapes, not knotty-stringy shapes. Plus they clearly don't follow the same script of a few your vision will ignore...

Wow, they skipped the whole feasibility phase? How did they know it was feasible to do such a trial without checking whether it's feasible to do it? And acceptable to patients? I'm still very confused about the purpose of those, and how common and mindlessly repetitive they are. Other than how...

It's frustrating that no one has ever checked what the damn floaters in our eyes are. Looking at my own, it's possible that they could be mitochondria, they certainly look like it. Super common with LC and they do not fit the description eye floaters typically have. Those are supposed to be...

Probably not as helpful as someone who actually understands it, but since SNPs are well-documented. rs1800955: "It is located in the promoter region of the DRD4 gene. This gene codes for the dopamine receptor D4." But, frankly, I'm not really convinced that much of this is credible, given, uh...

Good grief... Literally no one thinks physicians are infallible, it's painfully obvious how limited modern medicine remains. Well, clearly no one outside of medicine. We literally need this, except not for emperors: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Auriga_(slave) In ancient Rome, the auriga was...

Somehow, I imagine, psychopathology is not the same as physiopathology? Or some derp like that. Totally not dualists, though. You can't separate the mind from the body, unless, you know, as it's convenient.