On a sidenote, as I was looking up his qualifications I came across this page: Peter GLADWELL | Service lead Bristol M.E. Service | PhD MCSP |...
I highly doubt any professional qualified psych should be writing such things even if someone had any particular mental health condition? That...
It is exactly like that - go into the office/school/hospital the next day and have the same 'jokes' levied at you , OK'd by it must be OK because...
Yes I saw that and think it is really naughty and stinks. Reading and ignoring is just dismissing to be accurate. Cherry-picking or...
Am I missing something from Pete Gladwell's list of qualifications? Dr Peter Gladwell - BACME He seems to have a BSc (in physio I assume) and PhD...
I don’t think ‘if you choose’ [to increase your activity/pace-up] is the right phrase and is at best insensitive to the many who aren’t lucky...
Indeed. It feels like a very important - given other scandals that have been going on - campaign to highlight how much coercion, peer pressure,...
My heart goes out to Karen and family, this has been and is so awful. I don't even know what I can/should write because of not wanting to make...
Thanks for pointing all of this out, but particularly this one-liner. I think it underlines an attitude - there is so much underneath this I...
Oh and I bet it’s being used - that deliberate misuse of words to encourage GPs to write false/inaccurate notes - to screw those applying for...
The me:cfs specific part should be that it is aiming to keep us out of PEM , so focused on energy reducing /envelope support too ie avoiding the...
thats a great title. I think the phantom healthcare is such a good phrase on so many levels. The pretend it’s something relevant and the...
I hope there is a lot of social media able to make this change published far and wide to counter the ‘when retractions are made they are in small...
Yep I think there are certain power bases including this that had been allowed to prosper under the old regime I’d be interested in a chart to...
Ok but that makes it even more vital that they start describing when a deterioration (which might initially have been PEM or overdone it and maybe...
And if written for GPs then taking your list is much better. gp already has various flags inc notes about people who need more time or slow...
We need to get rid of and ban the term relapse too it was inserted to make it sound like a mental health condition with a mental health paradigm...
There is a strong point to be made too that Gladwell seemed to be developing all of this before the new Nice guidelines, and an important part of...
that exact same phrase came to me also about an hour ago. last thing we want is someone planning to do the same as the last lot did. It isn't...
Yep, from his research and what he has been pushing since 2013 Gladwell's spiel has been to claim (along with the Crawley et al paper 2013 that...
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