perceived fatigue What is the point of that word? How does that add anything?
The infinite flexibility of an unfalsifiable medical theory of everything.
I really don't understand why the rest of medicine is not dealing with this problem. It cannot be good for their patients to have diagnosis and...
Not clear to me if the symptom profile has changed over time, or just the balance between the symptoms (mostly due to learning how to reduce PEM)....
And terrified. This stuff should scare the living bejeebus out of people, and I think it does. Which is why they keep turning away from dealing...
Cause or effect? And if effect, then how do they know it is a pathological effect, not an adaption to dealing with a pathology? Would they say...
This is the kind of study I want to see a lot more of, properly controlled for PEM, of course. I think we are missing a large body of critical...
The study funding and approval committees, and the peer-review journals, are as much to blame as the authors. Psych is rotten to the core, and...
Yeah, Wessely and his like-minded colleagues are as guilty as it gets on this stuff, and deserve very harsh condemnation. But there is no way...
fallacious causal assumptions Not just that, they have made it clear over the years that they are very reluctant to identify and test their...
Following NICE guidelines is not, as I understand it, compulsory. But ignoring them or doing an end run around them via re-diagnosis away from...
Or we could, as a society, make sure that women who have recently given birth or have very young children have adequate post-natal social and...
Lot to be said for having a buzz cut. Cheap, don't have to worry about wind or rain messing your hairstyle up, and minimal maintenance – takes...
I have a modest suggestion: The Central Role of Leading Medical Journals and Their Editors in the Catastrophic Failure of Technical and Ethical...
Overall, there was a remarkable similarity in HRQoL among all CFS patients, regardless of location. Seems an important finding, given it is...
‘innovation without comprehensive pre-market testing and post-market surveillance and long-term monitoring of outcomes is, quite simply,...
With that usual caveats about subjective reporting and the potential for such measures to be misleading and open to manipulation, there might be...
Yes, extreme caution is advised in making any critical comments about Wessely. He is a master sophist, and it is necessary to learn how to parse...
Yep. At a certain point – and we are way past that point now – the distinction becomes largely irrelevant, the consequences for patients are...
(1) an individualized and structured, titrated return to activity program; And the evidence for benefit from that is...? (3) a healthy diet and...
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