I think the bigger problem is that many patients wouldn't describe their symptoms as fatigue in the first place :-P Hrm ... perhaps the likert...
Obviously you haven't met very many Dutch people :expressionless: Generally speaking, you can expect a lot of practicality from a Dutch fatigue...
I think this is the strongest argument - it's basic logic, and there's no traps to fall into from using it. It's not "anti-psych," it doesn't risk...
But that is pretty much what the description says: And it's unlikely anyone is going to be enthusiastic about the treatments on offer: I think...
I think it would be more along the lines of investing money as a way to eventually spend less money. Going down the wrong path has a lot of costs:...
No doubt, but the public is a bit more reactive to having themselves or loved ones medically neglected and killed off by the government.
What a bizarre site. They don't even know what POTS stands for ... the "O" is for "Orthostatic", and they shouldn't be omitting it. Regardless,...
On the positive side, this policy will fail quickly and spectacularly as soon as it kills a few people. On the negative side, this policy will...
The forum is currently structured as being governed by a management committee, with various tasks delegated by it to specific teams (admin,...
I find the idea of patient review boards to be especially interesting. Perhaps S4ME could form one? There doesn't seem to be an official...
I think it's a fairly good article. Token patients benefit no one. I especially liked these two suggestions for making patient-engagement meaningful:
Yes, since the Celebrex wasn't controlled for, their resulting assumptions about viral involvement are very much unwarranted. Hopefully someone...
They'd be awful for me ... oxygen saturation drops a lot if I lie on my back, or even if I lean back sitting in a normal chair.
My experience is that having a university degree has caused a great many researchers and clinicians to grossly overestimate their scientific...
He does remind me very much of a troll that many of us encountered elsewhere. He would superficially base his arguments on science, but without...
It looked like Crawley might have written the pediatrics one, from what I recall ... some grammar errors, and it looked like someone wrote it from...
Patients don't need a biomarker to tell the BPS approach to fuck off :-P It doesn't work and that's enough.
I started playing text-based hack-and-slash games in the 1990's, where the general view was that female characters were created to get free...
Why restrict the anonymized data to "bona fide" researchers, when it was collected by unethical hacks with no respect for the scientific process?...
Himalayan white-browed rosefinch :cool:
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