So having brain damage is now a functional condition? The medical profession really has gone completely mad.
Psycho twice? Isn't that overkill? I can't help myself. Whenever I see this phrase what goes through my mind instantly is "Doctor thinks patient...
That is horrifying! But, sadly, not surprising. :(
I'm just waiting for the advice to appear suggesting that sufferers learn chess or start doing sudoku puzzles i.e. GET for the brain, although...
Yes, I know. But I hoped it was generic enough to apply to all sorts of papers.
I don't know if this is of any interest to anyone... Title : How to read a paper Subtitle : The basics of evidence based medicine...
Can anyone tell me what the difference is between "functional somatic symptoms" and "psychosomatic symptoms" ? So, what does the word "somatic"...
I'm not objecting to this having been posted because it's interesting. But what prompted it to be posted 10 years after it was first published?
It's actually fairly rare for the BBC to give clues to the papers they are reporting on. It really annoys me. Some newspaper sites online are the...
Nothing would ever persuade me to take a statin. Just one of many issues I have with them is ... If statins reduce heart disease and thus reduce...
[ATTACH] I have a sofa in my living room. I keep trying to call it an elephant but nobody else will indulge me. Bah!
What a waste of time, effort, and funding that was.
While in the past these disorders were presumed to be solely due to psychological issues This just looks as if the researchers are absolutely...
Yes, true. But a doctor coming out with such a horrible forecast that could affect hundreds of thousands or millions of people should have said...
An N=1 comment... I used to smoke like a chimney. Not only that, but I smoked for a very long time (decades). I got help from the NHS to stop...
Did he have any evidence for that remark, or was he just flapping his lips? Edit: What am I talking about? Covid has been around for no more than...
@rvallee This just tells me that people in the US who have had Covid-19 are going to be denied healthcare because, of course, being mentally ill...
I've just taken another look at cbtwatch, and realised that the person who runs the blog appears to have stopped categorising his blogs. There are...
The blog site cbtwatch has lots of information and statistics about how dreadful IAPT is ... http://www.cbtwatch.com/ See this link for the IAPT...
I remember reading many years ago that the commonest cause of ordinary headaches is dehydration. So I started drinking some water if I got a...
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