I did have in mind just having a doctor who would offer the basic services but I think you make an important point. As a parent with a child with...
Doctor shopping can be a necessity with ME to find someone who will take it seriously. In our case we changed GPs when the GP wouldn't follow the...
I don't see the NICE guidelines as the issue here but the way GPs or other doctors don't feel the need to do even these basic tests. When my child...
I think Crawley has an NIHR fellowship which basically pays for someone to replace her in her normal work so she can do research so I the NIHR...
I think once a new version is published in May (Ok I don't really believe that will happen) then it may be worth some people getting together to...
Yet it is still there and the warning is small. I wonder what the legal position is in that there comment suggests they know the work isn't up to...
The BMJ have a really bad approach to patients with ME. For example, when the PACE data was released they commissioned Nigel Hawkes (a journalist)...
If someone presents symptoms of fatigue then the response should be to test for things that could cause fatigue; first looking at the most likely...
I have a feeling that quite a few acute issues are classified as MUS when someone first sees a GP leading to early signs being ignored and late...
Given my experience they don't even offer a service at the required legal level for home education and they may agree to other things such as...
I wonder if it is worth writing to the local education authorities in the area (who used to run the schools most will now be independent) for...
I assume there will be a problem with this work in that many of the papers look back at past events and try to interpret and blame illness on...
The MRC and now the HRA are basically giving cover to PACE for their bad practices as they failed to pick them up at the time. I don't believe...
I had assumed that the HRA were basically on the defensive as they authorized or rubber stamped the bad practices that PACE followed. So this is...
I think the REC are setting a dangerous precedent in that is say a drug company were to have a questionable drug then they could whip up some...
It makes me wonder if we should be asking the HRA to speak out about the misuse of their report.
The conversation is normally about the quality and reliability of the data along with the quality of the labelling. It could be biased but the...
With the coming of self driving cars you may need to rely on it (even as a pedestrian or other road user). More generally ML is becoming used in...
I think we have seen one thing here which is people training an ML model and then quoting how well it does on the training set. Or with regression...
I thought they switched the CFQ marking scheme to one that was defined in the protocol as a secondary outcome.
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