Who would have guessed thy set the bar so high? Is there almost 100% recovery from ME in Norway?
If one thinks through that court exchange one might come up with interesting hypothoses. Why would counsel have been cross-examining Beard in such...
There was no need for research. ME was a spurious disease concept. The Americans told them so. And they had been persuaded by M and B. But they...
Is that as bad as it looks? It reminded me so forcefully of SW's paper on neurasthenia that I became distinctly phobic, and unable to continue...
This is what the "corresponding author" has to say of himself Clinically, my real interest lays in helping people with long-standing...
We have seen this so often, in people who should be expected to know better, that it almost seems as though there is a selection bias in favour of...
Don't we need to be "cautious" before attributing too much credit to the BMJ? Is the full sequence of events clear? One can see that NICE could...
CFS under what criteria?
At least if they remove the stigma it might prevent reproduction of the more florid excesses.
The difficulty is that words do not "really" mean anything. One has to judge the manner of use.
Ah, well, you see, if the patient disagrees with the doctor he/she can be diagnosed as suffering Abnormal Illness Behaviour though even Pilowski...
I think it would be wrong to believe that there is only one BPS school and that Jenkins and Mowbray are to be associated with those we familiarly...
@rvallee I think you ought to tell us what you have against jackasses.
It might be of interest to quote Rachel Jenkins in her Introduction to Post Viral Fatigue Syndrome 1991 eds Jenkins and Mowbray quoting Acheson...
Should that be "potential causal factors"?
The question that arises from the Pauline Ovenden account is whether there were contemporaneous recorded references to flu at the time of the...
It will probably be suggested that there was a reluctance to cause potential anxiety by reporting a potential polio outbreak. Something of that...
It would be interesting to know Turner-Stokes means by that "some patients". Does it mean some of the overall patients she sees, and those are...
I have been trying to persuade people of that for some time but have not been believed. It's good to see some further evidence.
But the officers would be diagnosed with neurasthenia. And we have been told by eminent authority that effort syndrome was merely a form of...
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