Dr Myhill’s complaint to GMC about PACE authors.

My aunt is currently under Myhill.
She has been abandoned by her GP ( reading between the lines it looks like a psychosomatic belief) and there are zilch specialist services here and very few consultants wanting to take responsibility for anyone with ME.

My aunt had severe palpitations - 2 rides in ambulances, monitored and discharged when ecg was normal. No follow ups. This was when she was slipping into severe, before she was completely bedbound.

Myhill has provided a similar service to that described by @Ariel.

She had sleep meds which helped.

She has also improved thyroid function which has increased base temperature
My aunt had a partial thyroidectomy in her early 30s and there is a family history of thyroid problems .
Magnesium has reduced heart palpitations.

My aunts diet was very good anyway , and she had always practised breathing exercises for relaxation . So no room for woo there.

My aunt keeps an open mind and has a decent bullshitometer.

The sad thing is that these simple things should be within the wit of our health system. The fact that basic work ups seem to be unobtainable leaves people with the choice to seek help elsewhere ( and hope the bullshitometer is good) or have no help at all.

My aunt has OI issues like many . There are no POTS specialists at all in Scotland according to POTS UK. No cardiologist with an interest even if she could actually go anywhere. And a GP who was clueless .

So many symptoms can be alleviated to some degree and life improved IF you can access the referrals

My aunt can't and Myhill has helped with symptom relief with genuine empathy.
She dosnt entertain the woo.
 
My aunt is currently under Myhill.
She has been abandoned by her GP ( reading between the lines it looks like a psychosomatic belief) and there are zilch specialist services here and very few consultants wanting to take responsibility for anyone with ME.

My aunt had severe palpitations - 2 rides in ambulances, monitored and discharged when ecg was normal. No follow ups. This was when she was slipping into severe, before she was completely bedbound.

Myhill has provided a similar service to that described by @Ariel.

She had sleep meds which helped.

She has also improved thyroid function which has increased base temperature
My aunt had a partial thyroidectomy in her early 30s and there is a family history of thyroid problems .
Magnesium has reduced heart palpitations.

My aunts diet was very good anyway , and she had always practised breathing exercises for relaxation . So no room for woo there.

My aunt keeps an open mind and has a decent bullshitometer.

The sad thing is that these simple things should be within the wit of our health system. The fact that basic work ups seem to be unobtainable leaves people with the choice to seek help elsewhere ( and hope the bullshitometer is good) or have no help at all.

My aunt has OI issues like many . There are no POTS specialists at all in Scotland according to POTS UK. No cardiologist with an interest even if she could actually go anywhere. And a GP who was clueless .

So many symptoms can be alleviated to some degree and life improved IF you can access the referrals

My aunt can't and Myhill has helped with symptom relief with genuine empathy.
She doesn't entertain the woo.

I am pleased to hear of both positive experiences and accept people's concerns about Sarah. she has never been prepared to capitulate to the NHS orthodoxy or the flavour of the month. She is too much her own person to be dictated to and prepared to make herself a bit unpopular with fellow professionals.

Sarah is a bit of a fearless warrior.....and has always stuck to her firm belief in environmental and nutritional approaches.
 
Source: The Conservative Woman
Date: May 21, 2021
Author: Sally Beck
URL:
https://www.conservativewoman.co.uk/hounded-by-medical-tyrants-a-doctor-who-believes-in-vitamins/


Hounded by medical tyrants, a doctor who believes in vitamins
-------------------------------------------------------------

Medical tyranny is getting progressively worse - as we've seen with the
hard sell accompanying the Covid-19 vaccination rollout. This pattern
has been creeping up on us for years, and doctors using treatments or
therapies that are not drug-based, or who criticise recommended drugs
and therapies, are at risk of being reported to the General Medical
Council. The GMC governs all registered doctors and surgeons, and holds
ultimate power over the careers of rogue practitioners. Its remit allows
it to strike off any doctor for serious professional misconduct and it
erased 90 doctors from the medical register last year.

However, it only sent Dr Harold Shipman, who killed 459 patients, a
warning letter, and failed to strike off Dr Jane Barton, who shortened
the lives of around 650 patients with 'excessive, inappropriate and
potentially hazardous' amounts of opiates. Dr Barton was found guilty of
serious professional misconduct, but instead of erasing her name, the
GMC issued her with a list of 11 conditions relating to practice. Her
brother, Dr Christopher Bulstrode, was a senior administrator at the GMC
at the time, although he took no part in the investigation.

Now internet trolls and unidentified sources, not patients, have begun
making malicious complaints about any doctor who vociferously adds
vitamins to their prescribing protocols, or speaks out against other
drugs, vaccines in particular. Vitamins have been regulated by the
Department of Health since 2011, and despite numerous papers showing how
the antioxidant vitamin C deals with infection, and how vitamin D boosts
the immune system, they are still considered 'alternative' and avoided
by most GPs. Vaccines are capable of harm. The swine flu vaccine
Pandemrix was withdrawn for causing the chronic drowsiness disorder
narcolepsy, and two versions of the measles, mumps and rubella (MMR) jab
were scrapped because they caused the brain inflammation encephalitis.

Problems happen with drugs, while vitamins are a great accessory to any
medicine cabinet. However, GP Dr Sarah Myhill, revered by her patients,
has been investigated by the GMC a staggering 38 times! Her crime,
according to complaints, is using vitamins before prescription meds and
criticising PACE (Pacing, graded Activity, and Cognitive behaviour
therapy) and its authors to the GMC. PACE is the government protocol
which instructed chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS) patients, crippled with
tiredness, that they should exercise and banish negative thoughts about
their condition.

Dr Myhill is not the only doctor who is a victim of this witch-hunt. Dr
Jayne Donegan was accused of peddling 'junk science' back in 2002. The
GMC began an investigation after she supported two divorced mothers in
court as an expert witness. The mothers did not want their children to
have the MMR vaccine, while their fathers did. Dr Donegan testified that
vaccination was not risk-free, which is true, but two judges did not
agree.

.... more at the link
 
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How embarrassing for all of us.

I appreciate that she is probably motivated by "good intentions", but whether she did it intentionally or not, she has effectively leveraged the neglect and suffering of PwMEs as a platform to promote her ideas. Which makes me mad as hell.

Actually, no, "good intentions" doesn't make it any better. The good intentions are part of the problem. Give me good old fashioned self interest any day. At least you know where you are.
 
As stated above, I am a (former) long-time patient of Myhill's. If anyone involved with her is reading this, they might want to consider whether trying to claim that people should take vitamin supplements instead of covid vaccines helps the ME/CFS patients so desperately in need of recognition from the medical establishment and general public.

Unfortunately - and due to having had a phone consultation with Dr M in which we discussed long covid (I also have it) - I believe she genuinely holds some very unhelpful beliefs re: covid. I do not really want to put details on a public forum, but it was all very off base in the vein of the article above.

It's upsetting as she had previously helped me a lot >10 years ago, and it's alarming to hear her like this. I decided to stop the consultations.

I was taking many of the supplements she recommends when I got covid last March by the way!

If these are really your opinions, keep them to yourselves for the sake of the patients. This is harming us.
 
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