Except of course that the Weasel himself said in 1989 that there is clear evidence that PWME are not deconditioned. Their muscles have been tested...
Can the man be so stupid as to say this? Does he assume everyone else is stupid enough to take his word for it? The Dodo in the Pitt Rivers has...
I don't think we should see 'NICE' as made up of people who want to do anyone down. I think the worst one can say of NICE is that they are...
We raised this specifically. I wanted an assurance that evidence gathering would not just be done by the 'techies' and the conclusions passed on...
Yes, I think I found that second study before - basically you cannot say anything because the studies are rubbish - and it even pretty much says...
This is where the ACR criteria for improvement in arthritis do the job. You only score improvement to the degree that you improve on both...
I would be interested to know what the evidence base for therapist-delivered treatments for MUS is - if there is any. My impression has been that...
I have been trying but it can be an uphill struggle. Charles Shepherd would like to see more flexibility in treatment options. But to my mind that...
This is my view. When I started looking after rheumatoid arthritis in 1977 we were using poisonous ineffective treatments and I knew that my real...
The term 'multidisciplinary team' is a political buzzword introduced in the early 1980s. Before that we had lots of different professionals doing...
I very much agree with this analysis. We are all going to be suspicious, like @Esther12, that the same psychiatrists and their therapists will...
I am more optimistic. Charles and I met this guy before at RSM and I gave him a pretty hard time there for saying that there has to be something...
A minor observation that intrigued me. The new chair of the guideline committee, Peter Barry, came up to Charles Shepherd and myself, who were...
I think the meeting went well. There seemed little or no sign of psychiatrists there and psychiatrists did not appear on the guideline suggestions...
A neurological examination is a routine for any hospital specialist faced with relevant symptoms, not just neurologists. Thousands upon thousands...
I wouldn't get excited by the report of ganglionitis. It does not explain much,if anything specific, in relation to ME. If it was a causal feature...
It is very hard to know whether 2 day CPET tells us anything about a physiological basis for the cause of the illness or effects of the illness....
Yes, I think this demonstrates the fact that what they say in different places does not add up. But Chalder and Wessely were mostly saying that...
Quite so, but if you read carefully it is clear that to justify CBT these must be beliefs that can only be overcome if you use special techniques...
Because the point of the trial was to satisfy a desire to please the DWP and to gain academic kudos and job security for psychotherapists. It is...
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