There's been some push-back against the ignorant remarks from Australia's CMO (discussed here):
Thanks for raising this @Hutan My specialist encouraged me to lodge a submission. I'm not really well enough to put together anything...
Thanks for posting this @SNT Gatchaman. It's a very good letter.
(I may be misunderstanding something due to cognitive dysfunction?) I found this article fairly infuriating because the author still apparently...
Copied from the Long Covid in social media and the media thread At a press conference following Australia's National Cabinet meeting today, the...
At a press conference following Australia's National Cabinet meeting today, the Chief Medical Officer made this claim: [ATTACH] This was to...
I believe Jason has ME/CFS. He had this story about Alem Matthees and PACE published in 2017: How Alem Matthees’ letter helped solve Chronic...
Translation: We spoke to a group of patients who had been told that their unexplained physical symptoms were created by their inappropriate...
The preprint was discussed in the BPS attempts at psychologizing Long Covid thread here. Now moved to this thread. The authors all work for the...
If I recall correctly, the original research proposal was to study whether playing video games would help patients forget about their 'imaginary'...
SSD is such a load of pseudoscientific twaddle that even some psychiatrists have a problem with this concocted category of (alleged) psychiatric...
When I was at uni, an extraordinary claim such as this would be met with a stern "citation needed" at the very least. I'm always shocked they can...
It's a long time ago, but I recall two of the authors, Garry Scroop and Richard Burnet, were investigating lactate levels in ME/CFS after...
My gut feeling is that the only benefit of standing desks is to create "busy work" for Human Resources people and to generate income for the...
If this quackery is so effective, why is it so 'challenging' to get patients to complete the programs? I imagine that chronic pain patients...
Podcast: "Doctors and dualism" - Diane O'Leary, 2022 A podcast from ABC Australia featuring Diane O'Leary. Apparently ME/CFS is a prominent...
It is worth noting that Telehealth has only been available in Australia's publicly-subsidised Medicare system since the beginning of the covid...
I recently had to see a specialist for a medical assessment. I had to spend a long time listing my symptoms and the negative effect they had on my...
He's an old colleague of Wessely and a promoter of the "secondary benefits" model. I'm not in the least bit surprised to see his name on this garbage.
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