Opinion Lessons from a Neurologist After 25 Years of Functional Neurological Disorder Subspeciality Practice 2023 Stone

[Andy]

Abstract

The idea that a neurologist would do an 'FND clinic' or that functional neurological disorder (FND) could be a subspecialty of neurology would have been outlandish even 20 years ago but has become a reality in many places around the world. In this personal review, I reflect on 25 years of being a neurologist with an interest in FND, initially as a research fellow and later as a consultant/attending. I review lessons from diagnosis and management in the hope that they may assist other neurologists embarking on a similar career as well as other health professionals whose roles overlap.

Paywall, https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0733861923000051

 

[obeat]

The fundamental problem for ME and the delivery plan is the lack of a career pathway to create specialist consultants.

 

[Trish]

The fundamental problem for ME and the delivery plan is the lack of a career pathway to create specialist consultants.

I agree. We've suffered 30+ years of psychiatrists getting it wrong. Let's hope the functional neurologists don't get given their turn to wreck more lives.

 

[MeSci]

Abstract

The idea that a neurologist would do an 'FND clinic' or that functional neurological disorder (FND) could be a subspecialty of neurology would have been outlandish even 20 years ago but has become a reality in many places around the world. In this personal review, I reflect on 25 years of being a neurologist with an interest in FND, initially as a research fellow and later as a consultant/attending. I review lessons from diagnosis and management in the hope that they may assist other neurologists embarking on a similar career as well as other health professionals whose roles overlap.

Paywall, https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0733861923000051

Jon Stone is the one with a seriously-weird website: https://neurosymptoms.org/en/

 

[Sid]

Can’t read this awful essay as it’s behind a paywall.

 

[DokaGirl]

Do any of these FNDpeople ever do brain scans? I would hope they all do, but that's unlikely.

Given my own experience being almost shouted at by a neurologist, I'd say brain scans are not often ordered for people with less understood diseases.

 

[rvallee]

The idea that a neurologist would do an 'FND clinic' or that functional neurological disorder (FND) could be a subspecialty of neurology would have been outlandish even 20 years ago

These quacks sure do love to invent fake origin stories. Conversion disorder was invented by Freud and has been part of neurology since. It wasn't called FND, but that's about the only difference you could find with what fellow quack neurologists from a century were pushing. It's not even hard to find this stuff. They've even been called functional disorders for well over a century, FFS. Might as well pretend that psychosomatic medicine is brand new never-before-seen-or-thought-of. It's maddening how all of this is so obviously wrong that they have to constantly rewrite their own history and pretend that old ideas are brand new.

Sure, this stuff has been popular within psychiatry as well, but they're pretty much saying the same stuff anyway. There is literally nothing outlandish about any of this, this stuff predated this dude's birth and only a few labels have changed, all of which is documented plenty as being motivated with the belief that lying to patients is more effective.

But of course shills for establishment ideologies always pretend to be subversive. It's part of what shills do and how they justify their BS.

 

[Sean]

Clearly psychosomatics is the hill modern medicine has chosen to die on.

Pity they will take millions of innocent patients' lives down with them in their brazen grab for power, glory, and income.