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I assume that any doctor who is unexpectedly nice to me is just good at acting, if I have already been scowled at by receptionists and/or secretaries and/or nurses before I met the doctor himself or herself.

I usually reject the idea of going to A&E if the problem I have is invisible, and I just keep my fingers crossed that it won't turn out that I have cancer, or am suffering a heart attack, or a stroke.

Has Alan Carson ever been known to complain about groups discussing FND, ME, or Long Covid which were 100% psychiatric/psychological/mental health orientated? Edit : Just wanted to say that this post was written with tongue firmly in cheek.

So, is that implying that patients with dementia in one of its many forms [Edit: for example] actually have "Functional Cognitive Disorder" and could have better memories if only they tried harder? And "Acceptance and Commitment Therapy"? Always sounds to me like the therapist must be telling...

Yes, but I think from the BPS point of view, patients are lying about their fatigue health because they are lazy, drug-seeking, attention-seeking hypochondriacs. A lot of doctors have similar points of view about women talking about their pelvic pain and their periods. Edit : Changed the word...

It seems likely to me that the best treatment for Long Covid is not to get Covid at all or to treat Covid when people have it. I won't go into "don't get Covid at all". There are no treatments for acute Covid (for the general public not needing hospitalisation) that I'm aware of, but if there...

At least this man can be sure about whether he is getting the best possible treatment available. The average person on the street can't say that about any serious illness.

And nothing will improve in medicine for chronic conditions either. More and more of the chronic stuff is treated as psychosomatic now because it's cheap.

An Editorial. Published in : The American Journal of Psychiatry Title : Issues for DSM-5: Conversion Disorder Published Online:1 Jun 2010 https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.ajp.2010.09101440 Authors : Jon Stone, M.B., Ch.B, M.R.C.P., Ph.D., W. Curt LaFrance, Jr., M.D., M.P.H., James L. Levenson, M.D...

One thing I've always wondered about is why the number of places for students at medical schools is so restricted in the UK, and as far as I can tell has always been kept low. When the number of doctors is too small why ration the number of student places? I've always assumed that the UK...

I used to be very depressed (with good reason). Every physical ailment I saw doctors about was blamed on my depression, unless what I was complaining about was something that was actually visible. This means that some really serious conditions were ignored, sometimes for years, or misinterpreted...

Where does the stigma come from? Isn't it usually coming from the medical professionals who can't diagnose the patients' problems and therefore think the patients are lying or exaggerating or mentally ill? So why give the course to patients? It should be given to the medics (Edit: Who also need...

Your link sounds interesting but is only available to subscribers. There may be ways around this but my usual solutions for this aren't working.

Are they suggesting that knowing the source of one's pain decreases that pain? But not knowing the source increases it? I'm not convinced. I find the wording of this abstract confusing. Supposing that someone knew what caused their pain, it should seem obvious to even the meanest...

I've been diagnosed with dysfunctional breathing - this was at least 15 years ago. I was hyperventilating and didn't know how to overcome it. I think it was triggered by being iron deficient/anaemic and hence breathless. I found the exercises I was taught very helpful. But they had no effect...

How many antivirals are there in existence and use at the moment? They certainly don't seem to be commonly used in the UK. I've never been prescribed one in my life (that I am aware of), and I'm damn sure that I've had a fair number of viruses. So what are they currently used for?

Is it possible that patients are being pushed out and ignored?

This might be of interest. A Tangled Threesome: Circadian Rhythm, Body Temperature Variations, and the Immune System There are lots more papers listed on this link, and you can restrict the age of the papers returned by the search...

I'm not going to say anything about your condition itself, but if you could get a friend, family member, or carer to look for possible answers with this website : https://dermnetnz.org/ I'd say it is the best dermatology website on the web.

One of my cousins suffered a blood clot in the heart that killed her after receiving the AZ vaccine. I don't know her age at death exactly but I'd guess somewhere in her mid/late 50s, and she wasn't unhealthy.