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RCPCH conference 2019 abstract: Characteristics of a patient population attending a specialist outpatient service for CFS, McCourt et al

Discussion in 'Psychosomatic research - ME/CFS and Long Covid' started by Trish, May 18, 2019.

  1. Trish

    Trish Moderator Staff Member

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    Characteristics of a patient population attending a specialist outpatient service for chronic fatigue syndrome

    For more from the conference see this thread:
    https://www.s4me.info/threads/me-cf...cs-and-child-health-conference-may-2019.9555/
     
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  2. Trish

    Trish Moderator Staff Member

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    Strange definition of recovery. So if they now manage 1.25 days of school/week instead of 1 day per week they are 'recovered'???
     
  3. rvallee

    rvallee Senior Member (Voting Rights)

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    What's with the damn obsession over this? It's a complete waste of everything. Doing the same things over and over again, never producing anything of value. Completely irresponsible misuse of limited resources.
     
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    Hoopoe Senior Member (Voting Rights)

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    If you can't move the ball to the goal, move the goal posts...

    People that tend to define recovery like this are tacitly admitting that they cannot obtain satisfactory recovery rates when recovery is defined the way everyone else understands it.
     
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    Again, a very low bar for recovery. But hurrah anyways! Good grief! How about some biomedical treatment?! Oh right....there isn't really any - at least not government approved.

    Gee, wonder if the authors are angling towards the theory broken homes create "cfs". No thought it might be genetics - so who your parents are, but not if they're separated or divorced.

    Must be endlessly fascinating for the BPS folks to create these theories. They are easy to do though. Pretty much anyone can make up these theories.
     
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    Amw66 Senior Member (Voting Rights)

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    Given that this age group has a better prognosis for recovery , without intervention, ( does this ever get allowed for as a variable ?) seems that more trees have been killed in vain
    ( To put it diplomatically) .
     
  7. Hutan

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    :eek: Oh no, could it be children with CFS/ME haven't been bullied enough?

    Ah, now I understand the rationale for GET.
     
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    Mithriel Senior Member (Voting Rights)

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    If a higher percentage of patients than in the general population attended a fee paying school it follows that this would change the percentages to make the group as a whole less deprived, one fact not two.

    They are probably less bullied because you have to go to school or out into the world for people to know you to bully you.
     
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