Cheshire
Senior Member (Voting Rights)
The new @dave30th 's article
http://www.virology.ws/2019/04/02/trial-by-error-this-years-us-clinician-summit/
The PACE trial and other unacceptable studies from the CBT/GET ideological brigades have had an enormous impact around the world. Luckily, in the US at least, momentum seems to have finally shifted away from this bogus treatment paradigm. The shift, while welcome and long overdue, does not automatically mean more effective treatments are immediately at hand. The field’s obsession with psycho-behavioral models has held back biomedical research for decades, and patients have borne the harms of these misplaced pursuits.
Last year, advocate Mary Dimmock, whose son has ME/CFS, and Dr Lucinda Bateman, founder and medical director of the Bateman Horne Center in Salt Lake City, gathered together several of the leading specialists from around the country for a pow-wow. Among the goals was to clarify and focus on the many clinical care needs of ME/CFS patients and strategize about how best to move forward.
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Last month, the group met for a second time. Below is a report about the meeting from the Bateman Horne Center’s website.
http://www.virology.ws/2019/04/02/trial-by-error-this-years-us-clinician-summit/