Based on very low-low quality evidence. Marketing, par excellence. :sick:
Call me a cynic, but I am guessing it is a lucrative program.
Yes, we do need to be careful here. There will be a lot more going on behind the scenes than we will ever know. Cochrane is the last big medical...
No advance in three decades. We have heard this song before.
I am worried that long term sleep problems will have consequences for my physical health WTF is wrong with having that concern? IIRC, chronically...
But they have already declared us mentally ill. QED. :rolleyes:;)
Which is exactly the situation they want. Ambiguity suits them fine. The moment they start gathering data that allows causal relationships to be...
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and that the symptoms can be experienced as disabling”. Now that is patronising spin.
Because having unexplained seizures, and having to deal with moronic psycho-babbling pseudo-explanations about it from doctors, could not possibly...
Yep. There should be zero tolerance for this abusive fraudulent behaviour, and it should be very public too. Name and shame and permanently blacklist.
Not too much of a burden then? Just asking.
Which is ironic, considering one of the arguments from the BPS club is that (uncontrolled) PROMs should be given greater epistemological status....
Add me to the list of those unimpressed by this 'case study'. This was no accident. :grumpy:
I think this is very important: The response is not linear. In one sense the most important management tool patients have is learning to stay...
I really want to see the hard evidence for that claim. :grumpy: Without doubt the single most important management tool we have at this point....
One could also imagine that he is being managed out, in a somewhat face-saving way.
This. The whole notion of a 'baseline' is seriously distorting understanding of ME.
True. But it can put an upper limit on the size of any placebo effect, including ruling it out completely if the placebo and no placebo no...
mumblemumblehandwave*biopsychosocial*mumblehandwavecough
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