Apologies that this is rather off topic but it arises from my researches relating to the matter and I hope it will be accepted as a brief aside,...
I think you sum up well what I have seen so far, but I also only received it today, and need to reread. I keep looking for the references which...
I presume Gunderson does not have ME. I climbed and descended Galdhopiggen when I was about 10, and can assure him that "PEM" is nothing like the...
I think there may be a misunderstanding. I failed to make it clear that the correspondence concerned potential recognition by the DWP in 1993. SW...
It is not really surprising. Who was it who said: I also feel that this decision (to list CFS/ME under "other neurological disorders"), if it has...
I am fairly sure that in my recent readings I have seen the argument that exercise had been shown to be beneficial for fibromyalgia therefore it...
"The links with ME are obvious, since it is now regularly stated that ME is 'caused by'(Wilkinson, 1988) or 'the result of (Shepherd, 1989 a) a...
I have difficulty in understanding this comment by Wessely and Powell: The role of infection in the pathogenesis of chronic fatigue remains...
It seems that Goldberg was Professor of Psychiatry at the Withington Hospital, Manchester.
One aspect of this which I have just noticed is that Goldberg, a co-author of such egregious nonsense, was a "scientific editor" along with Behan...
I used to climb with someone who said he couldn't distinguish left and right and consequently wore different coloured socks. Advice from me,...
I hope to have the book shortly thanks to Amazon's second hand book dealers. I will report back in due course.
"I will respect, support and give gratitude to my teachers, colleagues and all those who sustain the NHS." Translates as "Whistleblowing will not...
Closer study of the dates of the various articles previously quoted tends to absolve Sharpe of primary responsibility for the statement. The...
Not our fault. Blame the doctors. I was told that there was no treatment and advised to join the MEA and await developments. Thirty odd years...
I apologise. I ceased my reading of the Abbey paper, referred to above, too soon-but there is only so much one can do in the call of duty. At p247...
"Sharpe et al (1992) in a prospective study of patients with myalgic encephalomyelitis seen in an infectious diseases clinic find that attributing...
"Furthermore, the patients' illness behaviour is likely to be perpetuated by adhering strictly to the advice given by the powerful self-help...
I am sure that this goes back to 1989 or 1990. I will start looking.
For anyone interested it might be worth trying to find something about the research behind this Daily Mail article suggesting that EBV following...
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