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Who would have guessed thy set the bar so high? Is there almost 100% recovery from ME in Norway?

If one thinks through that court exchange one might come up with interesting hypothoses. Why would counsel have been cross-examining Beard in such terms? Presumably because he had provided an "expert opinion" for the defence. Who would "The Defence" be? Presumably an Insurance Company. One...

There was no need for research. ME was a spurious disease concept. The Americans told them so. And they had been persuaded by M and B. But they did give us Imdoden, Canter and Cluff in exchange. We are eternally grateful. At least it gave Edwards some support.

Is that as bad as it looks? It reminded me so forcefully of SW's paper on neurasthenia that I became distinctly phobic, and unable to continue reading.

This is what the "corresponding author" has to say of himself Clinically, my real interest lays in helping people with long-standing interpersonal problems with the CAT model. I suspect many have long standing problems with the CAT model. This, apparently, is it It is a cognitive therapy...

We have seen this so often, in people who should be expected to know better, that it almost seems as though there is a selection bias in favour of people who lack basic reading comprehension skills. Perhaps more worrying is that the errors are not picked up by peer reviewers, editors, or those...

Don't we need to be "cautious" before attributing too much credit to the BMJ? Is the full sequence of events clear? One can see that NICE could decide to be more "cautious" before "advising" people to potentially breach its own guidance.

CFS under what criteria?

At least if they remove the stigma it might prevent reproduction of the more florid excesses.

The difficulty is that words do not "really" mean anything. One has to judge the manner of use.

Ah, well, you see, if the patient disagrees with the doctor he/she can be diagnosed as suffering Abnormal Illness Behaviour though even Pilowski admitted that it helped if the doctor was right.

I think it would be wrong to believe that there is only one BPS school and that Jenkins and Mowbray are to be associated with those we familiarly refer as being under the BPS banner. EDIT It is not immediately apparent to what, in the quoted passage, exception might be taken. She quotes Acheson...

@rvallee I think you ought to tell us what you have against jackasses.

It might be of interest to quote Rachel Jenkins in her Introduction to Post Viral Fatigue Syndrome 1991 eds Jenkins and Mowbray quoting Acheson At the Royal Free Hospital, no patient with poliomyelitis had been admitted to the hospital prior to the outbreak, nor was the diagnosis entertained in...

Should that be "potential causal factors"?

The question that arises from the Pauline Ovenden account is whether there were contemporaneous recorded references to flu at the time of the outbreak. Notes from 40 years later are useful but not definitive. It was definitely stated somewhere in one of the papers that the initial impression...

It will probably be suggested that there was a reluctance to cause potential anxiety by reporting a potential polio outbreak. Something of that sort was previously suggested. Non too persuasively.

It would be interesting to know Turner-Stokes means by that "some patients". Does it mean some of the overall patients she sees, and those are the patients she diagnoses as having MUS? Or does she mean some of the MUS patients? In which case how does she interpret the remainder of the MUS...

I have been trying to persuade people of that for some time but have not been believed. It's good to see some further evidence.

But the officers would be diagnosed with neurasthenia. And we have been told by eminent authority that effort syndrome was merely a form of neurasthenia. And the work of those studying effort syndrome was promoted as having been about PVFS or CFS.