Just to add something on top of all of the other responses here. People move through a world every day being constantly bombarded with things...
I think there will always be a tension between (1) the professional obligation to take actions to achieve the best outcome; and (2) deference to...
I get it. I respect the demands of the job and I wouldn't expect more than a handful of doctors who become highly interested in the topic for some...
I see. The one thing I would say is that I see general practitioners/primary care physicians largely as hybrid clerk/technicians, highly trained...
Having read through this thread I feel a need to stick up for Tina as I think some of the comments have been unfairly harsh to this person who,...
I mostly agree but I have a worry about this. The current bps euphemism/equivocation dynamic allows a sort of doublethink that patients are...
This experience of fatigue is a cultural construct. Members of indigenous African and South American tribes have run ultra-long distances for...
Levaquin is what got me out of severe cfs. Strange world.
I'm not sure how many people are particularly deeply committed to basic scientific principles (half tongue-in-cheek, half serious).
Yeah, I'm guessing some of the initial excitement and novelty has worn off. The ones I have done have been in the past year. They've all been all...
Having done several coursera courses I would caution that the amount of actual interaction is always none or very little. I suppose it wouldn't...
Well put. They're certainly not equivalent things, but the similarity in patterns worries me. @Trish 's query is important to check. If kids were...
Pardon me if I am off base here, but there seems to be a striking similarity to the process used by pedophiles to 'groom' victims and control them...
Regarding neurasthenia: I always find it particularly daft when someone references 19th century understandings of neurasthenia as somehow...
It seems to be a ubiquitous phenomenon for ideologically-based humanities branches to proliferate a burgeoning yet circular, self-referential body...
I've always need a lot of down time, so a doctor's call schedule - or even just medical school - would have been unsustainable. In college I was...
Okay, I have an admission to make in order to hopefully shed light on why some people recover from the lightning process. It can be done. I...
When the SEID moniker came out I had to chuckle a bit as it reminded me of my first attempts to describe my symptoms to a doctor. "It's like... I...
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Generally I've tended to think that it would be salutary if people would think about things in more complicated and nuanced ways. This and other...
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