An excellent letter making very clear points.
Haven’t read the article yet, but the conclusion @JohnTheJack reproduces above made me laugh aloud. Unfortunately such, though a joke, is hardly...
Has it been demonstrated that placebo effects are present in objective outcome measures as well as subjective measures? Does a placebo involve a...
The European Court of Human Rights is not directly part of the EU and our membership of it predates the establishment of the EU. I think it was...
I hesitate to be specific on line, but it may be possible to identify one of the schools from information in the published paper. [added - Have...
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I assume such algorithms will also disadvantage women, given the historic bias in describing medical conditions from a male perspective, resulting...
From a subjective point of view I agree that it is very difficult to distinguish between what is a symptom of ME and what is a cooccurring...
In some ways a misdiagnosis of say ME/CFS as MUS may be less immediately damaging for us than for other conditions. Misdiagnosis of ME/CFS...
How are medics allowed to get away with the entire MUS nonsense with no meaningful research basis whatsoever? Medicine by belief and prejudice.
In order to respond to such as this, do we need to develop our own wording, a statement to make it clear what we are saying about the limitations...
My understanding is that for the eleven published projects involved in this enquiry, Crawley produced a single earlier letter from her ethics...
The Sheffield group gets excellent speakers and does a lot of very good work.
It seems to me on first reading that the investigation found against the Bristol researchers on the matters of fact, but then said we are not...
To be fair, the more problematic research relates to the University of Bristol - Bath NHS axis rather than the University of Bath. Though...
When giving patients feed back forms, I found enormous variation in the responses depending on when they were given the form. Invariably feed back...
Thank you @Michiel Tack for this work, very valuable information.
Have so far not read it through thoroughly enough, but it is a very useful exercise.
I am twenty years out of date, but when I worked in the NHS the guidelines were no recording, video or audio, without the patient’s consent and...
Even ‘waiting times’ are not necessarily meaningful as they are subject to political redefinition, for example when I managed an NHS...
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