This is all very well, @Trish, but might it not be something completely different. I think you are talking about people who had known and...
I am not sure about the demonstrable pathology but that is a red herring. I am trying to get a handle on this stuff for my book. It is shocking...
But also those people were on the committee because people like Charles Shepherd and Margaret Mar had convinced Mark Baker that an attempt at an...
Yes 'number needed to treat = 100'. Even for good treatments NNT can be around 7 but you only have to look at the PACE graphs to see that this as...
Another point is that Newton's MRC project was on fatigue and maybe not on ME/CFS as such. So the only group that has had substantial biomedical...
You have to remember that is £20K to get one more satisfied customer than placebo. A treatment course might cost £200.
It takes some time to get to a publication after starting involvement with a service - probably 2 years minimum, so I am not sure the time lag...
People with factitious illness are very aware they are creating their signs. What they do can every elaborate. But a dog may do all sorts of...
Sounds as if they must be some of those who are doing the treatment wrong. I seem to remember that all Simon Wessely's patients loved him to bits.
Was that why Brian Hughes said something about scoring 11 for nostalgia? Seems it was. I should go back to sleep.
Yes that as it. And I think the reason it has been used so much is because its very short, it’s easy to administer, it includes items related to...
As the authors say, this is quite different from malingering. The malingerer presents a plausible account of a standard illness such as back pain...
I think this is relatively unlikely as a formal diagnosis although I see it as a major concern as an unproven presumption of what might underlie...
An after lunch fatigue scale then?
I cannot remember where I read this but apparently she was suggesting that this was really Simon's idea and that she just made up a bit of a scale...
Perhaps it should be called the Simon fatigue scale since Trudie Chalder has disowned it and said it was really Simon's.
It is good to see a detailed analysis of this. It is good example of the old adage 'lies, damned lies and statistics'. Statistics so easily...
This looks to me like a very reasonable, measured account of factitious illness cases. I think it is unwise to dismiss it as inappropriate....
But what if the peppermint oil works through taste and smell - like onions make you cry and curry makes you sweat? I drink peppermint because the...
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