Thank you, Trish, for looking into the question of where I got the 52% figure. You've found a lot of the central articles, and that's great. I...
That's actually extremely rare, because it violates the peer review process.
Many thanks for posting that @Tom Kindlon. It's very direct evidence of denial of medical care, and the kind of reasoning they've used to support...
That's fair enough. It's not good to suggest that people who've had to deal with this injustice are messed up or psychologically harmed. Really...
I'm not sure there's any tie between being psychologically harmed by an unjust situation and losing your reason. I mean, I don't think that's in...
Wow, I think this is so important @rvallee. First, "we can't keep adapting our language for fear it will be twisted and misrepresented". You...
Your concerns about medicine are well-founded, I think, though there's so much substantial medical research on ME now. I'm so encouraged by that...
What a great point, @Esther12. It's true that if the same bad science was used under the "medical" banner, we'd still have the same problem....
Thanks to all for the discussion on my JME blog today! I just want to say clearly that there is no conceptual problem with the...
You've got an interesting view worked out, @Jonathan Edwards, and I think you defend it really well. It works. It does rely on a lot of...
Oh holy cow! Step away from the discussion for a few days and look what happens! It's really tough for me to comment casually on these debates...
Thanks for that @Andy. It wouldn't be in my interest, or in the interest of my work to make a public fuss about this, though. It is very good...
You don't know how useful that is, Andy! The paper of mine that just came out in Bioethics spent a whole year under review at "Journal of Medical...
This is really funny, @rvallee! I mean, of course it's absolutely not funny that so many of us have endured what we have based on this thinking....
You are so right about the money @boolybooly. Patients with "MUS" are the most expensive group for insurers and for every national health system,...
Sorry for the long delay @Snowdrop. Busy week! Yes, I mean "medically unexplained symptoms". Roughly speaking, 50% of outpatients' symptoms...
Thanks for that, Sean. There's a strange code of silence around this area of medicine even publicly, even in bioethics. Trying to break that...
I'm with you on all of these points @Trish. Very nicely put. The thing is that this is not going to convince anyone who doesn't already agree....
I'm so glad you raised the issue of the IAPT. And thanks for mentioning the thing I wrote about BSS. Incidentally, that very serious threat...
I appreciate you trying to clarify that @Michelle. For the record, @Jonathan Edwards and I are having a nice email exchange, so all is well on...
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