Opinion: ‘You don’t want to get better’: the outdated treatment of ME/CFS patients is a national scandal - George Monbiot

Robert 1973 said:
George seems to have got the bit between his teeth. I gather there is more to come :)

“All this requires further investigation. The injustices done to patients with ME/CFS are compound and multiple. It's not just individual clinicians in the frame, but universities and departments, insurance companies, government and media. Great wrongs have been done.”​
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My goodness, if Mr Monbiot really gets the bit between his teeth .... :emoji_open_mouth::emoji_blush:

We appreciate you sir!
 
George Monbiot kicks ass. Are we expecting some typical BPS style response in the Guardian? Something signed by the BPS "all-star" crew, sans HM Sir Lord Professor Simon Wessely, of course.

To be honest, I kind of would like that to happen, hoping that it will give more incentive to Monbiot to take these people down in some grand scale investigative article that goes into details and even covers stuff like the "there is a way" message and such, when they tried to influence NICE's work behind the scenes. I'm really hoping he won't stop here (or at least that this gives rise to some more interest from other journalists). It may not happen but it would be great.
 
Wyva said:
George Monbiot kicks ass. Are we expecting some typical BPS style response in the Guardian? Something signed by the BPS "all-star" crew, sans HM Sir Lord Professor Simon Wessely, of course.

To be honest, I kind of would like that to happen, hoping that it will give more incentive to Monbiot to take these people down in some grand scale investigative article that goes into details and even covers stuff like the "there is a way" message and such, when they tried to influence NICE's work behind the scenes. I'm really hoping he won't stop here (or at least that this gives rise to some more interest from other journalists). It may not happen but it would be great.
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Yes, I think for once we may be in a win-win situation, whether they respond or not. In this instance at least, the tables appear to have turned.

I can assure you that George is not intending to stop here.
 
Letters
Why ME/CFS is still so poorly researched and treated
Readers respond to George Monbiot’s article on the treatment and attitude of the medical profession to the debilitating condition

These are the responses in the Guardian so far. Among others, you can read one from Charles Shepherd but as always, you can also count on having one from Paul Garner and Michael Sharpe each (at the very end).

Edit: Sharpe's sounds more like a lazy tweet.
 
George Monbiot appears to confuse the doctor paying attention to a patient’s fears and emotions with dismissing their illness as somehow “unreal”. I suggest such a view is ill-informed and likely to be unhelpful for patients with any illness.
Prof Michael Sharpe
Department of Psychiatry, University of Oxford

Sharpe's reply is like being savaged by a dead sheep
 
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Excellent. It would be hard to think of two damper squibs than the last couple of letters.

This is good from Garner:'a school of thought supported by scientists who believe the condition is a complex interplay between the biological and psychological.'

Yes, well, can we be done with believing and follow a bit of evidence?
 
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