It is absolutely routine in specific circumstances. For hypertension you measure BP without medication and then with. In RA you measure CRP...
My personal knowing refers to the UK equivalent, who has sat on just as many eminent committees and written just as many papers - and regularly he...
And I guess I should say that I base my viewpoint on knowing these people very well personally, to the extent that I was asked to take over the...
I understand your sentiments @mango but I am in a bind here. @Hutan kept chastising me for not pointing out that 'FND' is a bogus concept that can...
I find it hard to take seriously a document that comes out with " A variety of other clinical diagnoses may coexist with POTS, but it is largely...
I trained with the UK equivalent of Rowe and learnt a lot about how not to learn in medicine. It is not at all difficult for doctors to fail to...
I actually doubt very much that these guidelines are based on clinical experience. Early on in my career I found myself parroting and even making...
I am pretty sure all that stuff is just made up. I don't believe any of it has been tested for validity. It is exactly what someone would make up...
My impression was that AISA was an imaginary disease invented by Yehuda Schoenfeld. Since there is no inflammation in ME/CFS I don't see much...
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I am not aware of any official guidelines. There isn't any reliable evidence about what is the best thing to do in the long term so there...
'Sarcoid' covers two largely distinct problems. Acute sarcoid with hilar lymphadenopathy and often diffuse calf swelling due to oedema tends to...
I think there is a risk of oversimplifying the situation, as has been clear for post Covid illness. ME/CFS type illness may well occur after...
As far as I am aware none of the information on that sheet is based on evidence and is likely to get patients involved in unnecessary rigmaroles...
Except that people with Long Covid don't get 'the help they need' because there isn't any beyond advice on not trying to push through. The 100...
How about the Ninja Turtle Protocol On the basis that Americans call tortoises turtles and the tortoise won the race by taking things steadily.
Interesting to see that these people are arguing in public the case that I was arguing against in my recent piece in Qeios. And they make exactly...
This reminds me why we are no longer members of another place that until recently we were not supposed to mention, and I still won't mention (by...
Memory loss is a well established problem with ECT and informed consent includes explaining that. My wife lost a lot of memory to begin with but...
The very best thing would be that DecodeME would find a link to some very obscure but crucial control protein - let us say TWEAK (it exists)....
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