Search results

Long COVID is a multisystem condition requiring a range of medical, therapeutic, and psychological inputs. Such certainty. Why do I get a sinking feeling reading this?

So, they are going to sacrifice the ME/CFS patients to the psychosomatic gods in the foolish hope it will save their PSS patients?

Assuming that biological markers alone do not sufficiently explain aetiology and development of PSS, Hell of an assumption.

Deliberately.

Look upon ye mighty works, O BPS Poo-Bahs,

They used the 2003 and the London ME for the secondary criteria. They also modified at least the London, and I think the 2003 (IIRC) as well, thus making the results hard to compare to other studies that use the unmodified versions. Reeves WC, Lloyd A, Vernon SD, et al. The international...

Hard to avoid the suspicion that no matter what the evidence is from the study, Rosmalen is somehow going to twist it into a functional narrative, with causation assigned according to doctrine not evidence based logic. Time for a patient strike? We have the right to say no to being...

Very interesting. :geek:

Correct. The double standard is appalling. Patients have a vested interest. Those who have committed their careers, reputations, status, empires, incomes, etc, to the psychosomatic interpretation have a conflict of interest. The one thing the BPS school cannot be described as at this point is...

'Medically unexplained' is a reasonable and neutral term, at face value. Problem is how it has been hijacked and perverted to mean 'medically unexplainable', that is by primary biological mechanisms.

How to hijack the whole notion of biomedical and pervert it to whatever ends suits one's desires. All they are going to do is look for superficial, highly selective subjective correlates, and make sure none of it properly tests for causation, and claim that proves the psychosomatic...

Second donation done. Fingers crossed. :hug:

committee members noted “concern” as patients reported being unable to receive a correct diagnosis or proper treatment. They are not getting 'proper treatment' because there isn't any yet.

Large tracts of medicine seem to have abandoned the whole idea of causation, or at least robustly testing for it, and instead rely on association only. Typically weak spurious ambiguous association.

Besides the differential in numbers and severity, and of course any generic gender-specific issues, all the descriptions of ME from females that I have read describe the same experience I have had. I don't see any other fundamental differences in the condition along gender lines. [Edited.]

Yep, it is beyond ridiculous that some of the more plausible, obvious, and easily tested possibilities are either not tested properly, or just ignored completely.

I happen to agree with the view that we should not conflate ME with the current definition of LC. That definition is too broad and non-specific, and we have seen some recent examples of how that will be misused against ME, and any connection with LC. What we should argue is that there is highly...

Follow-up article. https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-04-25/long-covid-report-sparks-push-for-research-into-linked-illnesses/102262582

The patient endangerment angle might be worth investigating further.

Does it also make any difference whether the Dr is male or female?