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There seem to be a few posts on the subject on that blog: https://respectfulinsolence.com/?s=TCM

You didn't miss anything language-wise, "earlier" is just as unspecific for native English speakers. It just means previously, recently, before. Probably in the last day or so given the context, but only @Andy knows what it really means :unsure: ETA: just noticed Andy said "earlier on", so that...

I'm afraid I've been having the opposite thought - if they are not announced as members, then they have been effectively silenced by being kept on tenterhooks until the end of the process. But as you say, neither of us has any idea. I wonder who does know what's going on?

Maybe all this talk of militant activist patients is driving potential researchers away and they can't fill the position?

In the Nature article, I think I may have spotted a clue here: Look's like it's in a few people's interests to take Mao Zedong's idea and run with it. This will allow governments to say they're keeping their promises to deliver universal healthcare. The fact that the treatments are ineffectual...

Maybe they were people who just didn't want to go home, for whatever reason. When I spent a short time in hospital in the early 80s I was quite happy there because they had a better telly than ours (which was black and white and only got BBC Wales and HTV Wales unless you stood next to it waving...

One way of interpreting this is that only non-professionals are capable of having a preformed view. The possibility that a professional could have a preformed view is discounted by virtue of the fact that they are a professional. That kind of stacks the deck. I may well be misinterpreting this...

Welcome to the BPS misery go round. Anyone else suspect that when Clare says "Dr's" she actually means her husband? Does she really believe in Simon's infallibility, or is she merely unconsciously colluding with him lest his fragile defences are shattered by complaints, intense fatigue (you...

I'm having trouble thinking of this as a medical error. It seems rather deliberate.

That doesn't help. I can now feel his hot rancid breath on my neck.

She has lived with the cause for 25 years.

By the way, if anyone can help me get the unsavoury image of Sir Simon whispering into Clare's ear whilst she tweets out of my mind I would be most grateful. It came unbidden, and now I can't get rid of it.

The reason I don't have a twitter account is because of what I would say to Clare Geralda. She is trying to drag the conversation onto mud-slinging territory where she and her ilk are most comfortable. Fortunately she is making as big an ass of herself as Michael Sharpe. The mainstream press...

They believe in climate change? Well there's a small ray of hope.

Well hopefully it's pro bono and the trustee isn't on a nice little earner.

What on earth are they holding it at the offices of Allen and Overy LLP for - that must be costing an absolute fortune. Allen and Overy are one of the top 5 London law firms by revenue, a group which rather nauseatingly refers to itself as the "Magic Circle"...

Fabulous.

So 'functional disorder' means that for this patient the health service has ceased to function?

Thank you. I am now thoroughly pissed off.

Someone once gave me an egg-cup with exactly the same thing on it. I tend to stick with terse and sweary all day, but become more articulate as the day progresses. In my token effort to be more cheerful I can't help noting that at least they've booted EC off the broomstick so they can start...