Yes, this is the current guidance in NZ. When I went for an eye op under GA a few years ago, I told the anaesthetist at my preop assessment that...
In response to @SNT Gatchaman report that the term "medicalise" and "medicalisation" is only even been used to legitimise biological illness, from...
Off topic again but I read in Stuff last month, a young woman diagnosed with hEDS flew to Germany for the nutcracker surgery with her mother after...
As a doctor, I don't consider any of those medications low risk! Many have significant side effects and can cause a variety of serious health...
NZ uses two USA sourced machines (and the adhesive pads to deliver ECT). https://nzihe.org.nz/a-biomedical-look-at-ect/ The link is from a...
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encapsulated an element of stress... oh really? now where would that be? I can see them all nodding their heads about their wonderful grasp of...
I found the Mirror article interesting. Another woman with Very Severe ME was admitted to the RD&E in 2023 and they refused to do NG feeds below...
It is a problem I often reflect on. I have been fortunate to find a person who totally believed me from the beginning. Actually if I hadn't found...
I will agree to disagree on that one Jonathan. There is difference between academic medicine and clinical medicine. But I do appreciate this is...
The other issue, after watching the ITV report yesterday, is that M was treated during Covid measures. No family could be with her. So that would...
Yes, I do appreciate this but in all areas of medicine there is an opportunity to use "experimental" treatments which have an accepted rationale...
I wish they hadn't put CBT as a treatment for ME in the Guardian article. Rather focus on the disability of ME. Supportive CBT may only help...
Interesting paper
I find that hard to believe, if that is what he said. He is a gastroenterologist, he would have seen lots of patients over his career getting TPN....
Interesting, the GP said one Consultant didn't think ME was a medical problem. Now we have the Matron of the hospital saying the same. So who is...
Yes I agree. I haven't said that I think fludrocortisone is appropriate. I personally don't think it is. I don't think it is good idea to play...
I have had a good read through the comments. Yes, I totally take your points, @Jonathan Edwards about increasing the intravascular volume. Yes,...
I don't think it is about the amount of red blood cells and oxygen carriage. But the plasma volume of blood. It is nearing my bed time so major...
I still think there is some central reason (i.e. in the brain) for ME and PEM, and the often tantalising, research into the metabolome and...
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