I think it is instructive to se the response by Mary Sullivan in the Autumn 1989 MEA Newsletter to the article by Chalder and Butler and in...
I'm sure TC will advise "completing the agreed activity regardless of the symptoms which occur. This is because although there is initially an...
It makes one wonder whether some of these doctors are at all familiar with, for example, Peter Behan's use of the term Post Viral Fatigue Syndrome...
That was not what Ramsay had in mind. He was thinking of something very similar to ME but without the variability of symptoms. I copied the quote...
Interesting to see the Ross Morriss quote. There is a chapter by Salkovskis and Bass on Hypochondriasis in a book on CBT by Clarke and Fairburn....
It does seem odd that as an infectious diseases expert he had so little knowledge of ME/CFS/PVF/PVFS. In denying the possibility of PVFS it is...
OK' I can just about accept that. The problem still continues with the Wessely at als definition. By that it is closer to epidemic ME, a purely...
Sounds like ME for sure I'm afraid Garner is going to have to get rid of his notions of exceptionalism. His illness has a cause. CFS is defined...
Some people are easily satisfied. Just remind me, what do they call that thing which acts as a conduit for channeling effluent?
On a recent trawl through ancient documents I came across something which is valuable supplementary evidence to the Chapter of Ramsay's book, so...
Well, there is a difference , you know. Important people might have PVFS from covid. Not at all the sort of people who would have hysteria.
This is the point. It is perfectly understandable that someone with insufficient general experience of such cases might come up with such a...
It would also be helpful to have a view as to whether deconditioning could be a plausible explanation for a condition in which variability of...
What sort of funding would a study of that nature take, and what idiots would provide it?
I'm getting really grumpy. Should it not be Post Exertion Malaise, otherwise it is something arising after "Exertional Malaise"?
I think the picture is clearing. The Sokes et al paper described itself as dealing with "Effort Syndrome". Once the Oxford Criteria had been...
Am I wrong in thinking that the argument is that, as there is no abnormality of peripheral muscle function, it is safe to undertake exercise?...
Judging by some of Edward's contributions to the CIBA conference it may have been a quasi-religious experience. I have yet to discover whether...
One might reasonably expect an infectious disease specialist at the Royal Free to be aware of the risks, so it is not clear whether it is she or...
He looks ill still.
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