Both Bob and I were members of the S&K Society a long while back. It's how we met, and how I met a number of other good folk, so it can't all be...
I'd like to support ME Marge's offer to be a member. I know you aren't looking for votes or anything yet, but I know her well enough to value her...
Perhaps we could use PACE to widen the attack and include MUS by highlighting the weak standards of "proof" required of psychiatrists and...
Actually, I forgot to add, the original MRC committee was set up in 2002 following a critical Chief Medical Officer's report. It was reorganized...
But there is one aspect of MRC funding that is relevant: their attitude towards biomedical research. It's fine to claim that the applications were...
So sorry to hear this Wonko. If only the same firm and principles applied to each MP when they tried to claim expenses.
Don't worry about that. On the one hand we have people with a handful of degrees unable to accept that their errors in lowering the targets would...
I live in the south-east of the UK: but we are the highest point for miles around, so if there is snow, we get it. We do have a garage, but it has...
There are three of us in our bungalow, so things aren't really the same, but with two of us having ME and one having fibro, it isn't vastly...
That's exactly what I meant about them being sociopaths. I came across a few in teaching - I think the giveaway is the way in which they treat...
My inner nature makes me very suspicious of highly ambitious folk. But trying to think rationally about it all, I think the truth is that many of...
Whenever I have read anything of Simon Wessely's, I have always been struck by the clarity with which he avoids saying anything too specific. It...
My legs ache with cold at night, particularly around 3:00 when our natural body temperature drops. Besides wearing lots of warm stuff, I find an...
I like your percentages, @pteropus ! I look at the standard scales for activity, and their percentages, or their number scale, and get frustrated...
Yes, the pressure is immoral: I remember it only too well - at one time we thought we were starting to go down the route of getting in social...
Hi @Amw66 . I can't offer you any other suggestions unfortunately: it's well outside my zone. But as an ex-Head of Maths who has ME, and whose son...
Would it be worth contacting Jane Colby of Tymes Trust, who has a long history of campaigning for children's educational needs?
It sounds to me as if the original committee had a majority of people pushing for CBT/GET, but a vocal minority unable to support them. So they...
Actually, last year, the wife of a cousin (in her 60s) died suddenly of sepsis following a short spell of gardening. They live in a small village,...
Very impressive.
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