I am starting a thread on the 'Duties of a Doctor', which in the UK has replaced the Hippocratic Oath (as far as I am aware for graduating...
If people want to learn more about the cognitive processing problems often seen in autistic individuals, I suggest reading the books by Olga...
I suffer from what I call 'verbal dyspraxia' but could be seen as 'stammering' to an observer, I just cannot get my tongue around common words, so...
When I was in hospital they said they couldn't find my daughter's telephone number in the file they had. Apparently this was a new file started at...
They have in the past used the excuse of lack of security. Of course this is nonsense because there are secure email system providers available...
Yes. I am going to do that. Currently they aren't even meeting their obligations under the NHS Accessible Information Standard (2016). My GP has...
Even if hospital discharge letters don't specify a severity level (because of the coding system), it makes no sense for my GP not to do so when...
We generally refer to 'severe M.E.', yet I've never heard a doctor talk about 'severe CFS' or 'moderate CFS', they usually just refer to the...
On my NHS hospital discharge letter last week they wrote that I had 'CFS', although I never used this term myself and was not originally diagnosed...
I also have ADHD, so I suspect I'm very different than most PWME neurologically. I can never 'switch off' my thoughts, although they often do go...
In the autistic self-advocacy movement this is what is termed as being 'A self-narrating zoo exhibit'....
However, I was still able to make the cognitive decision to discharge myself...
I actually go through stages, I internalise rather than externalise my meltdown initially. I become a sobbing mass and if left alone at that stage...
No, this is an neurological thing I can't control and not due to not being able to deal with confrontation (I'm really, really good at that in...
I think from this and your other posts my severity level is similar to yours. What I'm interested to learn is whether when continuously pushed by...
Interesting they removed one from my ex-husbands (a male's) breast on the NHS. That was about 25 years ago and definitely only done for cosmetic...
Despite Participant A stating explicitly (in the true manner of a lawyer) that she didn't suffer from fatigue they still lept referring to her...
Did the researchers actually listen to what these patients were describing? Could they not work out that these patients were fed up of being...
The article doesn't discuss the problem of the supermarket only offering a restricted range of items, compared to what is available in store....
Unfortunately Cole and Abel don't deliver this far South! Riverford has a much more restricted product line, which is why I decided to start...
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