That's problematic because all those important things are things anyone working in a BPS mindset can't impact, so that makes them useless in the...
To "objectify": verb degrade to the status of a mere object. "a deeply sexist attitude that objectifies women" express (something abstract) in...
Studies relying on health records are a terrible idea. Those health records are less reliable than tea leaves.
Body Politic statement on the growing trend of locking up LC in the CBT/GET paradigm....
[MEDIA] Of course that's the whole point. If it gets defined, it will be harder to shunt it into the MUS void. Everyone who argues against...
Interesting. From personal experience it would probably be relevant, I don't know how generalizable it would be. I actually have to pace my...
I think one explanation is typical STEM field failure in dealing with things that maths can't solve. Medicine is a purely technical training, all...
Not ME-related, not about the recent guidance either, but today is a day of online advocacy for Long Covid in France. They are demanding...
Article can't be published because of paywall: "The Challenges of Getting Long-Covid Patients Back to Work". [MEDIA] Direct image:...
And yet, seems rather consistent with other countries: [MEDIA] Almost like efforts should be made to actually count this so we could know...
I have no memory of anyone expressing that a major worry related to chronic pain is that it is a worrying signal of physical injury. Maybe it was...
The validation process in EBM is a complete joke. Literally: we like what it says therefore it is valid. Turns out inventing a process to...
X factor also means something special, what people who have "it" bring. Very vague, whatever it means, but basically it's special, the secret...
It frankly seems to be the "innovation" here: give it a cool name. We know these people are obsessed with labels, it's only natural. They can only...
They are counting natural recoveries as the product of their intervention, simply ignoring those who don't and no one's really counting anyway. At...
One thing LC has shown is that far from being a fringe view, the ME-BPS view is actually fully mainstream. It's basically unquestionable gospel...
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Most of my symptoms aren't on my medical record. It was very clear from the beginning that discussion of symptoms is not something medicine does...
Not necessarily the UK, but it's pretty much certain that at least one country will do this. And if done, it would be in such a way that...
Few and mixed so far. Some hopeful simply because it has the words saying to take it seriously. Some negative because they actually read the words...
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