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Am I being cynical in assuming - given 23 are female anyway, so only 4 could be the men, but also: Which points to me like potentially using the heuristic of 'all women have it' ("were very good at “detecting” FSD") ie 23 means they 'missed one' of the 24 the 'FSD specialist' claimed to spot...

Literal first line and para (my line spacing) in the introduction "Functional Somatic Disorders (FSDs) are common across medical settings [1], and recent studies have found a high prevalence of FSD (8–10%) in the general population [2, 3]. Patients with FSD predominantly present in...

and of course as per the following article: Nottingham hospitals: NHS paid out £101m over maternity failings - BBC News you have the situation where it is made/is hard to get any diagnoses and then get through a legal case, probably limiting who can complete them and of course delaying payment...

For balance the following website says that is an overestimate, and it is just over £1bn: NHS in England not paying out £8 billion a year in maternity negligence compensation – Full Fact Which would only be a third of the actual budget for maternity Either way it seems that @rvallee you are...

Maternity payouts cost NHS twice the price of care itself (thetimes.com)

hmm articles that use the line 'experts think/advocate/have found...' being deliberately fuzzy about what counts for them under that term. I can't imagine they are in much if they are 'advocating for' both ie 'the use of PSS instead'. Who are they apparently advocating for? The dodgy/dodgers...

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I think there is also a big difference between someone who might have been off long-term sick with their employer returning to their post vs someone who has been completely out of that then trying to get back in. But also for a new generation - and that is where the theory 'looking forward' gets...

This explains a lot. the thing is that if you are looking at potential cures or something that will make a significant impact to reversing things then this should work but needs to look longer term than perhaps some illnesses or treatment might tend to ie 2yr result instead of 6month due to the...

Yes I feel more confident this is getting across the nub of the issue

Agreed. But then the issue - whether you use tolerance, sensitivity etc is the horrible people and attitude who choose to twist and interpret (because of the cod psych that has been allowed to take over and proliferate, but also just a dodgy osychology ie not science too many have and belief is...

Agree. And I think the important part about PEM is that any of these, but remember we still get subjected to actual noise etc that norms would find gave them headaches, is that it is exertion so there is the snowball effect if you are being subjected constantly to these over one’s threshold. Or...

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Like the horrible feeling you get it’s assumed as ‘not a problem’ even if it is low … based on tail wags dog of ‘there’s no treatment and no clinic so nowhere to report all these people [ on Twitter ] and their feeling awful and symptoms to when they do go to GP and finally get a test result’...

Just reminded me that I think Peter Pan the book has a scene where you can only fly if you believe hard enough oh quick Google and maybe it’s even more near the knuckle than that: “a combination of fairies dust and happy thoughts”

The ‘how many thought it was acceptable’ measure is nonsense. participants were recruited to the programme by the old vic. And were capped at capacity. so the number isn’t a measure - it’s yes we found 20 interested and able enough they signed up to what they knew the programme was, out of a...

"Between September 20, 2002 until her last ECT shock on September 29, 2004, there were only three weeks during which she did not undergo a procedure." from the article This seems such a strange thing to do because people really tend to not fully recover from the last one for about 2 weeks. It...

Yes I've heard of some LC and ME/CFS talking about nicotine, didn't realise there was an official trial. I'm not sure there is comparability between giving people who've never touched nicotine before and have a healthy body for how long? a day? a week? it's the cliche of most people who do a...

there are a few different versions, as it is included in presentations for slightly different audiences (so if you google and want a longer one then you might find one that best fits) and I first saw this as part of a presentation for SolveME I think and there is a link I put about that on here...

I hear about other conditions that have systemic treatments for the actual condition eg rheumatoid or psoriatic arthritis where there is a good match of that with patient then the ‘fatigue’ (and they’ll say ‘feel ill and awful’) goes away with that. I thought there were good treatment options...