Sweden: Have the ME and CFS clinic in Gothenburg found a loophole to avoid the diagnosis ME?

[bicentennial]

An "ME clinic" contracted and funded for time-limited ME treatment, but with no ME patients ever treated, can hardly keep the contract and funding for ME treatment though all of 2 years

W"hen the contract and its accounting is disclosed, it can show if the clinic is contractually obliged to refund any overpayments, if paid per treatment, and/or per client, or on a retainer instead:

And - maybe - it never claims for treatments but still expects to offer treatment, when it finds a very rare case of a very rare condition, which in such case needs re-categorising as very rare.

This clinic is collecting data on incidence and is almost bound to propose re-training GPs to differentiate between its alternatives and stop "over-diagnosing" ME.

Yet it must first establish how come its alternative conditions must be mutually exclusive and cannot possibly be co-morbid, or maybe that is so definitive its already established

My mind boggles, but their minds are tied up in knots which Houdini himself could not escape, so all bundled up they will be delivered to their destiny, shame and sorrow, not going to plan

 

[Hutan]

That's a nice observation @bicentennial. An ME/CFS clinic that hasn't seen anyone with ME/CFS on the face of it seems to have no reason to exist. Might as well call it what it is, a functional disorders clinic.

And - maybe - it never claims for treatments but still expects to offer treatment, when it finds a very rare case of a very rare condition, which in such case needs re-categorising as very rare.

I'm not sure what you mean by this.

 

[Liie]

An "ME clinic" contracted and funded for time-limited ME treatment, but with no ME patients ever treated, can hardly keep the contract and funding for ME treatment though all of 2 years

W"hen the contract and its accounting is disclosed, it can show if the clinic is contractually obliged to refund any overpayments, if paid per treatment, and/or per client, or on a retainer instead:

I'm pretty sure that the clinic is part of the tax funded regional government healthcare organisation. Not a privately owned contractor. So I don't think the thing about contracts and over-payments applies.

Might as well call it what it is, a functional disorders clinic.

I believe they send away the patients with recommendations to the primary care provider for treatments by psychologists.

 

[Liie]

This clinic is collecting data on incidence and is almost bound to propose re-training GPs to differentiate between its alternatives and stop "over-diagnosing" ME.

You're right! I didn't think about that! That's scary.

I wouldn't be at all surprised if this was the real motive for establishing the clinic in the first place.