You're already know what you're talking about though! There's nothing impressive about Schröder's writing, but I worry that it's more effective...
Where have I held psychosomatic explanations to a lower standard? I've not seen any specific psychosomatic approach to CFS that could be presented...
I think it's almost inevitable that there are some thoughts and behaviour that can worsen most illnesses. Do you not think that there are any...
I'm certainly not saying that we should not question unquestioned dogma, or that I feel uncomfortable doing so. I'm just pointing out that tying...
I think it's a mistake to focus on the illness model, when it's almost always been presented as likely to be incomplete and work like PACE is...
What specific claim about psychosomatic illness is their weakest spot? I'm not saying that we should let them dictate what we're allowed to...
Once again, we see how any use of a term like 'psychosomatic' is unhelpful, unless it's a direct quote from someone else. Whenever disputes are...
Yet here they cite that paper as part of their justification for a cut-off of 18 using an unmodified questionnaire?
Maybe there is a subgroup of CFS patients suffering from "health anxiety/hypochondriasis", but this seemed a frustratingly pointless read. Even...
Personally, I find MEpedia to be a hugely valuable resource, especially for finding links/info that I'd forgotten the details of and I'm very...
I've not been able to keep up with all the discussions here, but the claims about the test for determining if fusion surgery is indicated did...
Only reading the abstract, but: That seems a bit of an odd way of phrasing it. How bad was this documentary?!
This tweet of hers was posted as Montgomery retweeted it: [IMG] Once again, the BMJ saying all the right things about patient engagement in...
To me, this whole PROM project looks hopelessly corrupted by the researchers involved. A waste of time and money imo. This is of some interest...
I was just going to post something else in this thread, and finding it made me wonder if asnyone had an answer to this question... Also, it...
Thanks for doing this Trish. I haven't looked at the details of this research, but to me the response from Wright is pretty worrrying. That...
Thanks. I find that useful to know re the likely accuracy of the notes and chances of errors. Thanks for attending and letting us know what was...
Thanks for all that info @Kalliope Interesting he brought up PACE on his own, and is still heaping praise on it (it probably is a better piece...
Thanks so much for everything Mike. I hope you and your family have a good time through the holiday season.
Thanks for posting. Good to show support for the MP who has done the most to speak out on PACE issues.
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