The blame for this situation increasingly lies with the rest of medicine for failing to pull their colleagues into line.
Because we just know for sure that they do have a defective personality type. Yes sirree, no question at all about that. The diagnostician's task...
I guess one in ten is an improvement from the 45-50% that is claimed by the NHS for medically unexplained symptoms. If they keep whittling that...
If you are having to use such phrases in the sales pitch, chances are you don't have the evidence.
Which is a particularly stark case that being very smart is not a vaccine against being very delusional.
The arrogance and callousness of these people is just as breathtaking as when I first encountered it a few decades back. They have learned...
No consideration of the possibility that these patients have currently unrecognised physical disorders? The single most predictable feature of...
This means we now can, for the first time, identify a scientific BPS model for every individual patient. If it explains everything, it explains...
Indeed. The core business of science is making predictions. If a hypothesis/model can't do so, it has failed.
Not to mention that, despite its central role in the BPS model, deconditioning has never actually been assessed in CFS patients. It might seem...
Good points.
I don't seem to be able to find my surprised face.
A scientist proved chronic fatigue syndrome is real... *sigh*
Intervention effects, if any, seemed to disappear with more narrow case definitions, increasing objectivity of the outcome measures and longer...
After nearly 4 decades of ME and all its delights, I am still surprised by how resistant to the obvious medicine can be.
A systematic review of randomized controlled trials published over the last two decades was conducted. Shouldn't have taken long.
Update for places to buy masks in Australia:...
Most of the hard work here is being done by the state/territory governments and general population, while the federal government is not adequately...
If this is a parody, it is in very poor taste.
This minimal acknowledgement of risk among all providers would make it possible for patients and providers to peaceably collaborate in this...
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