There are so many things I want to criticise the RCGPs for. So many. METRIC might be a good place to start:...
You mean just this?: https://web.archive.org/web/20180911134312/http://training.ucheducationcentre.org/uploads/CFS_course_timetable_2018.pdf Any...
Thanks Mike. Amazing work.
Here's an archive of the programme, in case it goes offline:...
Looks like that Bristol CMM twitter feed has now been shut down. That was quick! https://twitter.com/BristolCMM
Interesting article. Also - social media drama involving academics is always so fun!
Just found this short summary in nature that I thought would be worth posting: https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-017-02105-4
The forum has not been around for long, but seems to already be thriving. Thanks to all those who have contributed to the discussions - it's been...
In 2004 she was also promoting the biopsychosocial work stuff that came to be used by the DWP to justify all their cuts:...
I thought that they'd already had their application period for professionals too? If they've re-opened applications, that probably shows we did a...
I dread to think how much worse this series would have been without Lakens being so critical of PACE. He even seemed to call them out for trying...
Unless I've misunderstood, I don't think it was that sort of swapping that was being discussed. While treatments of choice that broke...
"We believed the evidence would speak for itself, and it didn't." The evidence did speak for itself, it's just that Wessely didn't like what it...
I vaguely remember an interview/comment from J Kerr from a few years ago (when he'd largely stopped publishing on CFS) that seemed quite odd to...
[MEDIA] [MEDIA] [MEDIA] re "defend the rights of the communities they serve" - yeah, and that community certainly doesn't include patients.
In 2012 I'd responded to his 'personal story' here [edit: this was back when I'd only been reading research for a few years]:...
Is there data to support even that? I've no idea where the claim comes from. Seems to have been pretty thoroughly debunked by data from the PACE...
In this profile from the Times Wessely put on his website you also have the same myth: "He discovered that by combining cognitive behavioural...
Thanks @Mattie - all of the coverage leading up to the programme made it seem like it would be rubbish. It was really worrying to me that they...
New article on a doctor called Frans Visser:...
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