Petition: Remove CBT/GET from NICE guidelines NOW (ALL COUNTRIES can sign)

TiredSam said:
The photo is of a doctor doing a facepalm, which sends entirely the wrong message. What's she thinking - "Oh no, not another ME patient!"
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Never saw it that way until you said, and still don't now. To me it shows a doctor holding her head in her hand, as people do when shattered; her posture is just the same as when you have your elbow on the desk for support.
 
TiredSam said:
Well I was being a bit silly. But just the fact that it's another pretty woman looking tired at her desk is annoying enough.
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True, but if that is actually a picture of the real doctor, then you can't blame her for the way she looks ... I'd assumed it was as I've seen that picture on her own website somewhere, but cannot now find where. But I may have just got my wires crossed for a change.

Edit: This is who I was thinking of, Dr. K.N. Hng. Amazon product ASIN 1984050826. Still don't know if that picture is of her or not though.

Edit 2: I see @MEMarge beat me to it :).
 
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Keela Too said:
I wonder about the Yellow Card system. Why does it not apply to psychosocial therapies?

http://sallyjustme.blogspot.co.uk/2018/02/yellow-cards-psycho-social-therapies.html
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It might be worth writing to the male MP from the debate in Parliament the other week. As he had expressed concern about GET and suggested removing it until the new guideline is published. Telling him that there is no way of flagging non pharmacological treatments that cause harm might help add weight to his demand to remove. Also it might give him and the other MPs another issue to bring up when the next debate comes round.
I think I saw that he had written a question to parliament on whether NICE had details of how many people were harmed. So he obviously still cares about this part of the problem and he may be able to ask another question as to why there is no yellow card system for these treatments.
 
This doctor has a fairly active Facebook Group, could message her, via this:
Dr Hng's ME/CFS Friends

The book is OK. It is an easy read and does include relevant info/descriptions.
It did annoy my daughter, due to refs to being ultra busy, burnout style, but keeping going as long as she could.....
 
I really don’t have an issue with the image it gets over the key message to a broad target audience including doctors that the book is by a doctor.

I have read the book it is indeed an easy read. I haven’t read anything other than a book of sort stories for months and I was an avid reader.

We’re coming back to the same point made in discussions about Gary Burgess advocacy no individual approach is going to be 100% approved by everybody. I’m not saying the thoughts about the picture aren’t valid the books have this picture now so it is already out there.

If you want to feed in thoughts to this Dr -who has only had ME 18 months but is spending energy to contribute to the avocacy effort including amongst her peers - get involved in her Facebook group she’s looking for people to work with on advocacy.

Dr Hngs Facebook friends
 
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