Yes, I completely agree that BDD is a terrible construct. I’ve written a proposal to reject it that has now been escalated to the medical sciences...
What I’m saying is that while BDS criteria specifically target ME, BDD criteria do not. So if the UK recognizes ME as a biological disease - and I...
I have asked you many times why you believe doctors do get it right most of the time. Can you answer that question, with evidence? First, your...
Can I ask what conclusion you think we might draw from this? For example, do the authors understand MUS consistently - or do they shift (as most...
I'm still having a lot of trouble understanding that. Most of the time when people talk about MUS they mean as the BPS camp sees MUS - i.e....
Lots of great questions and insights here. * Up to Date summarizes current consensus on every medical condition in a way that's useful right...
I sure appreciate your diligence and your clarity, Trish. I think it's important that the 50% figure does not directly support the Wessely...
That's just not tenable. There is far, far too much research to support it, and this research is global. The Up To Date system, for example, is...
The paper's arguments do not depend on the 50% figure - that's not accurate. I suppose it will feel more or less important as a problem depending...
I mean, genuinely, that the people on s4me are good, well meaning people. You're also highly intelligent, articulate and very well informed.
I have to go to work now, but quickly - you are so right that there's conflation of proportion of symptoms and proportion of patients. And you're...
Ah, I see now. The reason that Up to Date states "over 50% of patients are not suffering from a medical condition" is that this has been received...
Thanks so much for your collaborative efforts @Lisa108. I do not take credible critique personally, and there's been a whole lot of that about my...
I've recently collaborated with Keith Geraghty on a chapter about MUS for the Oxford Handbook of Ethics and Psychotherapy, and there we use the...
It's a good question, Trish. It might help to know that the higher estimate in Kroenke and Mangelsdorf (in the body of the paper) was incredibly...
I know that you do not have expertise in ethical reasoning @Jonathan Edwards, but I think you should be expected to accurately determine the...
Thanks Trish for your questions. You're absolutely right that some research focuses on number of symptoms, while other research focuses on number...
It might be helpful to note that when it comes to prevalence MUS is not the same as somatoform disorder, and neither is the same as FSS or...
@Cheshire I'm sure not suggesting that you shouldn't check things for yourself. I think the research of ME advocates is so astute that it...
@Jonathan Edwards I have not made an argument from authority, as I have in no way suggested that you should believe my 50% figure based on my...
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