That's a brilliant piece of work. Detailed, thorough, forensic, very impressive. Very pleased to see such a comprehensive dissection of the...
I don't think that was ever considered true in Britain. I've gone back to a very early medical text, the famous System of Medicine (1911), edited...
I'm not suggesting that patients with MS have never been misdiagnosed as psychiatric (in fact, I specifically made the point that some of the very...
Don't wish to take the thread off-topic, but there's a claim in Solve M.E.'s letter: I do not know where this myth started, but I've seen it...
Interesting. They're right to bemoan the lack of patient inclusivity and the "misguided" treatment that some of them have received, but: It's...
Unfortunately, Paul Garner accepted a somewhat psychosomatic framing of his illness in an earlier account back in June: The model his...
On the 12th of November, NIHR announced a £20m research call, closing on the 9th of December:...
Is it common for non-British treatment centres to seek to involve themselves in NICE reviews? Looking at the CG53 table of comments and the...
I don't wish to dwell too much on such a ludicrous aura-seeing, tarot-card reading huckster as Philip Kilvington Parker, but I recently came...
From the same author (emphases mine): Extraordinary that she can be awarded a PhD for her work on a condition of which she evinces no...
The GP quoted in this article, Tomlinson, is also quoted here as saying "[t]here is no one for whom the problem of chronic pain is not a symptom...
One often overlooked reason is medical education: rare is the medical student who has never been taught "not to reinforce psychosomatic...
I wasn't arguing for an entirely separate ME service, @Jonathan Edwards, but against the uniform approach of the PPS/MUS clinics in particular....
She's mistaken; the development and peak popularity of psychosomatic medicine obviously predates this. I have in front of me a British medical...
At the risk of taking this thread off-topic, I've been thinking about what may occur after the new guidelines are released, assuming of course...
The section on the level of care needed to support those with severe and very severe impairment, and in particular the nature and extent of...
I'm a little late to noticing this new BACME position paper, but a few brief comments: BACME should be challenged to explain what they...
I've had a diagnosis of NDPH from a number of years ago, as I developed a new-onset headache with the infection that led to my developing ME, and...
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