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How easily reporting creates bias - "backlash to health information" as opposed to, say, "criticism of medical claims".

It might help if there could be some kind of pathway that would allow learning from misdiagnoses. As it is, you go and see a GP (or whoever) with your concern, they say 'oh no, I shouldn't think it's that, you just need to stop worrying', and you then never see the same person again. So when the...

"we need people who have not been trained in disciplines where uncritical acceptance of theory-based practice is the norm" Is the problem that they're being trained to uncritically accept theory-based practice, as such, or is it that they're being trained by people who believe the practice...

Thanks for this - really useful to see some practical real-world examples.

Probably not a representative sample, if people experiencing long-term symptoms are more likely to take the survey?

I can picture Badenoch striding through hospital wards ripping the drips out of people's arms and demanding to know why they're getting the special privileges of medication and a lie-down.

And it's an absolute treat (and very typical of Ed Yong) that the transcript of the video is made up of properly written and edited captions that form a properly readable script, not the usual autogenerated rubble.

I'm a 14th-century doctor and I'm doing these things to avoid catching the Black Death: 1. Wear a leather hat with a long pointy nose 2. Wave a bundle of herbs 3. Avoid miasma 4. Drink your own urine 5. Confess sins 6. Apply a live toad to any swelling 7. Massacre some heretics. If you can't...

I've been taking 10mg amitriptyline for a couple of years - it was suggested by a neurologist to reduce sound and touch hypersensitivity and migraine-like symptoms, and I think it has helped somewhat with that. But I'd like to try coming off it now. Not sure whether I'd need to taper off from...

Expressing anger made her feel less fatigued, so 'the mind-body connection was proved in an instant'. Therefore if you find that anger doesn't alleviate your fatigue, that means the mind-body connection is *dis*proved in an instant? (of course not, it just means the goalposts get moved again.)

No, he talks about things like lowering inflammation and getting people "back into a healing state", plus the importance of rest, but he doesn't claim cures. Various phrases like "some of Sinclair’s patients are seeing light at the end of the tunnel." etc.

Do we know what trial he's talking about here?

Someone sent me this link for it https://www.thetimes.com/article/1a49f428-ef8b-43a2-854e-336f3c4f0094?shareToken=7c4dbfedcf35f9b03f4faf2b0c5a27a0

Did they test anyone's 6MWT (or other measures) without intervention?

... but we'll still put out a press release hyping it up. LOL.

I think for Google the point is that it extends their control over what people see online and where they see it. So if you want to know something, you don't go to Wikipedia or some other website where humans have collected human knowledge, or god forbid a library; you stay on a Google site and...

What I want is not to be left to the mercies of a GP whose approach to Long Covid is to ask me if I've tried yoga and give me the link to some online CBT. Right now, this lot seem to be about the only people in positions of relevant authority who are saying that might not quite fit the requirements.

But the rest of the NHS and the Department of Health have got their fingers stuck in their ears singing "la la la, Covid is over, it's all in the past and it's very important that we never ever think about it again." As far as cavalry goes, these guys are about on the level of primary-school...

*sigh*

They found 'common mental disorders' in over half their sample (though you have to go delving in the supplemental tables to see this; for some reason they don't want to give the figures in their summary), and they define PCS as any one of a very long list of symptoms lasting longer than four...