A huge difference this time around (surely?) is that NICE cannot plead ignorance. And they must be keenly aware of that.
Not at this moment. But what stands out to me is that nothing - absolutely nothing - confines their statement here to medicinal drugs treatment,...
Interesting that NICE link includes:
Yep. If they could be convinced the current approach is seriously financially unsound that would likely be a tipping point; not just the headline...
No problem :). My thinking was that, no matter how much we know and understand the human costs of ME, whether we like it or not it is the...
I didn't mean it was necessarily directly about profit, but with any commercially driven enterprise, no matter how philanthropic the stated aims,...
It was just a thought.
Have to be especially careful to ensure NICE do not buy into the PACE authors' pseudo-argument that CBT/GET are valid because it is "the best we...
Where there is profit to be made or maximised, ethics invariably comes a very poor second.
Oh god, the woman looks uncannily like a certain scientist.
Yep. I've said for a long time that the psycho-oriented within society (about 1% I believe), model the world differently to how most normal...
https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2008/may/06/healthandwellbeing.health2 Many thanks MS for making me aware of Keith Kahn-Harris. He comes...
Not so long as they don't state what ceiling effect they mean. I suppose that if some participants had little physical function disability at...
[my bold] Therein lies the answer :rolleyes:.
Sleep deprivation of some kind seems a very common symptom for PwME, and it can have significant consequences all of its own, depending on...
Story Telling pretty much covers it.
It's like an unfinished sentence - "but our finding that the effect size was greater in those with the worst baseline physical functioning...
Oh ... I always thought it was you in the midst of a GET session ... gently explaining to your therapist the error of their ways :p:)
I so very much agree with this! "Respect", in the English language at least conflates two quite different things I always believe: 1) Respect for...
Spot on @Lucibee @Trish. They just cannot glimpse how their own perception of patients' false beliefs, is in fact much more an issue of their own...
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