Grigor
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A must-see interview by investigative journalist @dave30th with NOS journalist Sander Zurhake about his recent publication concerning CBT/GET in children with ME, long COVID, and IACC/PAIS more broadly.
How patients and their loved ones are sometimes coerced into these treatments, and how — if you notice or know these treatments are harmful and refuse them — you could even be accused of child abuse.
Zurhake explains how the process unfolded and how much resistance he and the NOS editorial team faced from The Dutch Association of Pediatrics (NVK).
How they tried to convince them that what the NOS was about to publish was disinformation, citing outdated and flawed studies in an attempt to discredit the story. Quite intimidating from an association of medical doctors of course.
However, this went against the judgment of, for example, the NICE guidelines, the IOM report, and — to some extent — the 2018 report by the Dutch Health Council.
Zurhake says this:
“So, I said, we have a lot of important institutes like the Institute of Medicine from the US and NICE from Great Britain, and even our own health care council the same in 2018. Like I said: hey, we are not the ones that should explain ourselves. It's the other way around.”
Definitely worth watching.
Please share!!
A must-see interview by investigative journalist @dave30th with NOS journalist Sander Zurhake about his recent publication concerning CBT/GET in children with ME, long COVID, and IACC/PAIS more broadly.
How patients and their loved ones are sometimes coerced into these treatments, and how — if you notice or know these treatments are harmful and refuse them — you could even be accused of child abuse.
Zurhake explains how the process unfolded and how much resistance he and the NOS editorial team faced from The Dutch Association of Pediatrics (NVK).
How they tried to convince them that what the NOS was about to publish was disinformation, citing outdated and flawed studies in an attempt to discredit the story. Quite intimidating from an association of medical doctors of course.
However, this went against the judgment of, for example, the NICE guidelines, the IOM report, and — to some extent — the 2018 report by the Dutch Health Council.
Zurhake says this:
“So, I said, we have a lot of important institutes like the Institute of Medicine from the US and NICE from Great Britain, and even our own health care council the same in 2018. Like I said: hey, we are not the ones that should explain ourselves. It's the other way around.”
Definitely worth watching.
Please share!!
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