I think that the Coroner will be looking very hard at this issue with a view to identifying whether there are any missed opportunities for...
Apologies for this long post, but your question is a good one. The situations outlined below all pertain either to HCP’s right to diagnose,...
It is my experience that our understanding of any communication always starts from where we personally are in our own understanding of the matters...
I too have first hand experience of this situation as the carer of my late wife who died in a Hospice as a result of nutritional failure described...
Jonathan, I think, covers these points in the paper when he states that: ‘Concern in this area highlights the fact that health professionals may...
I posted the comment below to the Virology Blog re David’s article on Jonathan’s paper and thought it also relevant and perhaps useful here. I...
An excellent paper, which clearly sets out the current very serious difficulties experienced by ME/CFS patients in this area of clinical concern....
This is an interesting updated model, which covers the sex differences and encompasses PEM features. It has an elegant sophistication to my...
I find a lot of Wisdom in the Native American Proverb: ‘Never judge another man (person) until you have walked a mile in his (or her) moccasins.’...
In the 1960’s my parents worked in a very large Mental Hospital, my father as a manager and my mother as a nurse. Housing was provided for quite a...
I have tested this at law very many years ago with regard to a diagnosis of ME/CFS as a physical illness made by Dr Weir which later medical...
Thank you. An excellent collection of documents showing the continuing controversy and confusion around ME/CFS over the years. A very clear...
You are right the new NICE Guidelines ‘ rescinded their franchise’ and opened them up to scrutiny and competition in unexpected ways from both...
Thank you, Jonathan, for trying to take this forward. I agree with your stance on the likely helpfulness or not of this open letter and that the...
I agree the issue is not the label/diagnosis but the mindset that produces it and (I would add) also the mindset with which it is received and...
All well and good except that far too many of these ‘idiotic’ health care professionals use their position not to look for the truth, but to...
NICE has told me in correspondence that they can only advise, not instruct Doctors and that ‘changing Clinical Practice is one of the most...
There are several interrelating areas here. The relationship between Medical Scientist/Doctor and patient is mediated by, ‘carefully reasoned’...
I offer the following comments on the ‘health care culture’ surrounding ME and some remarks about my personal experience as to how widely the...
Exactly. And my reading of this Study from a lay persons point of view is that some of the language used by the writers to discuss their findings...
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