Yes looks very interesting, so I have ordered it, though reading whole books is hard going. I am still working through Brian Hughes' excellent...
The references relating to GP training and to service delivery, as well as encouraging GPs to think of psychiatric diagnoses as a first not a last...
Presumably at present there is no record kept of diagnoses of MUS as a perceived coherent psychiatric syndrome that are subsequently demonstrated...
Here is another quote from 'Implementing a psychotherapy service': What a nightmare, no wonder the clinicians this group work with find...
Here is yet another one: "the more investigations and referrals they receive, the more difficult it becomes to help them" from Implementing a...
This whole MUS edifice is so depressing, most of the GP training seems designed to encourage ignoring the patient's symptoms whilst appearing to...
Several of the references suggest basic blood tests be used so that these can be used by the doctor in explaining that there are no underlying...
Here is a clear statement in the 'Guidance for health professionals on medically unexplained symptoms (MUS)' Royal College of Psychiatrists,...
I have read it in several places but my memory is so bad. I had thought it was in the Adults Improving Access to Psychological Therapies...
Here is the body of the MEAction suggested draft for people to adapt to send to NICE Although very relevant, the MEAction approach allows NICE...
I had a surprise birthday party yesterday, that was great, but ... ... So do not at present have the intellectual capacity, but if no one takes it...
Not with it enough to look back through this thread but someone earlier suggested that the issues arround the individuals with clear financial...
I agree, that we should be raising the conflicts of interest in specific individuals now, where there are also clear arguements showing NICE's own...
Attempt at a questionnaire: 1. Do inoculations/vaccinations increase your ME symptoms? + 0 - 2. Has your ME increased your susceptibility to...
Don't know if this is relevant to why I am one of those that don't get a counter intuitive dimunition in ME symptoms in the context of an...
The King Lear effect "Where the greater malady is fixed, the less scarce is felt". (May not be an exact quote as my memory is not reliable.) I...
Thank you for the link, it makes very interesting reading. It is a shame that the chapter that this thread is about is behind a paywall, as we...
Are there any figures on the numbers or percentage of people with ME or with Fibromyalgia whose onset dates back to a vaccination? A correlation...
I had come to the conclusion I needed to address this issue with my GP especially as my GP's practice does not seem well able to deal the...
Thank you @Sly Saint, definitely need a memory transplant as I had read the earlier posts in this thread.
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