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Their defensiveness was utterly palpable and I’ve never been treated so unprofessionally in my life. The physician community has “issues.” Sure does. I used to work in a hospital before I got sick. I have closely worked and socialised with, and even gone out with, doctors. They are very...

Whatever the details of who said what, when, about pacing, Goudsmit deserves more credit and recognition than she might otherwise get.

One of those ideas that could be good in principle, but in practice is likely to be very messy indeed.

I am a huge fan of science-based medicine. The amount of suffering and death it has relieved and prevented is enormous. It is without doubt one of the greatest of all human achievements. I just wish there was more of it. :bookworm:

Especially in the Golden Age of Functional Everything.

Yeah, something is not adding up here.

Oh the BPS club have learned some lessons alright. Just not the ones they should have. But then there was never much chance of that happening, was there. I hope they understand and are prepared for just how long the haul and ferocious the resistance is likely to be for them.

"No one can be so stupid as to say that ME and post-covid do not exist." It isn't stupidity that is driving the denial.

It's déjà vu again, folks.

And these are based on what evidence (specific to ME)? Especially that hoary old chestnut, the "boom and bust" cycle?

negotiated In the same kind of way that you can negotiate with gravity or oxygen.

anamnesis That is, taking a patient's history. Why use that word when there is a perfectly good plain language version? Science-based explanations as well as the bio-psycho-social model So science-based explanations and the bio-psycho-social model are not the same?

Fundamental causes may involve biological factors (such as early childhood trauma and early life stress, emotions, a propensity of anxiety, witness to violence, maltreatment, or childhood sexual abuse) If that is their definition of 'biological' then I think I am on the verge of spotting the...

Donated. :thumbup:

At this stage in medical science any claim relying on placebo/nocebo is bankrupt from the start.

And without any understanding of what the symbols it is manipulating actually represent. Which is likely to remain the core problem with AI, at least in its current form and degree.

I am very much banking on the usual non-linear transition for this kind of attitudinal change. It seems like most of the (hard earned) pre-conditions are now in place for it. (Which is no guarantee it will happen, but if it is going to then the current situation is what it will look like just...

That's quite good. The message seems to be slowly getting through.

Patients can be our own worst enemy.

They have been refining their 'methodology' for some time now. It is good at reproducing their desired results, but without actually properly testing them.