They use standard terms but give them a different meaning to make it seem like we are complaining about nothing. When the PACE trial was...
I have read a few things recently, both in articles and novels, which I have found appalling. They go like this - someone has become addicted to...
She said it was down to hysteria about the millennium and seemed proud of the fact she did not look at any medical evidence. The millennium came...
It is not "boom and bust" at all, even though that is what the psyches keep insisting (they distort terms all the time so it may be used...
The CDC were the authors of the confusion surrounding ME and made the lives of patients hell for decades. They have made some changes to their...
We are having to reconsider disease caused by parasites. The insights into infectious disease from nineteenth and early twentieth century...
I have a rollator, bit more expensive but good if you have other needs. OT gave me a perching stool but I have a narrow, galley type kitchen and...
Just seen this thread and it touches on things I feel very strongly about. I have some tangential experience with abused children. In some cases...
It sounds as if they are using ME/CFS to mean chronic fatigue. That was always the danger with changing CFS to ME/CFS without emphasising that...
Another frustrating piece of research. I worry that it will seem like common sense - look at symptoms then treat them - so any criticism by us...
Have school nurses not gone the way of the dodo? Never heard any of my grandchildren mention one.
I can't decide of this is confused, naive or plain lying to make the diagnosis palatable by saying something the patient will believe means one...
I attend a local MS clinic. Before the pandemic they became enthusiastic about a program called "Overcoming MS" There was a diet, supplements,...
Armistice is in November, the heating would have been on so a low level of carbon monoxide is always possible. I never felt any anxiety about...
The problem with this is that epidemics started in the 1930s, if not before. There has been a continuity and overlap of patients since then so it...
I don't think it is individual doctors as such. They are presented with "evidence" outwith their speciality and believe it. The whole idea of...
Sharpe was at Edinburgh University for a while. He published the first FND paper with Jon Stone, who was still at Edinburgh last year, in 2008....
Exactly. yet the likes of Peter White are still insisting that since their PACE trial (erroneously claimed to be an RCT) did not show evidence of...
I have been reading these twitter threads with great interest. [MEDIA] He says We in medicine deserve the derision of physicists and engineers....
This is a tactic they have used before and the FND people have used to legitimise their theories. There is now a paper with this title and backed...
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