I will always marvel at the inability of medicine to come to terms with the idea that people can have more than one medical problem at the same...
Long haulers are slowly getting acquainted with the freight train trolley being sent their way: [MEDIA] One twist of the trolley problem that...
Yes, but how do they rate on magazine questionnaires about which Beatles they are? Is it more significant than rating which K-pop band they are...
They can't even provide any evidence that this is of any use beyond the fact that people, mostly themselves, have been using it. It's the same...
The Forever Disease: How Covid-19 Became a Chronic Condition...
Pretty much literally: don't ask us about the stuff we publish, we just publish it, we don't actually vet any of it. Cochrane seems to mostly be...
Not impressed at all. Still mostly BSing. Post-viral syndromes are not at all well defined, what the hell is he talking about? Either he has no...
Yeah Cochrane really looking like a clown factory here. No wonder medicine has completely stagnated at improving patient outcomes when the...
Nobody wants to be known as the phrenology expert after phrenology got discredited. Same energy. Professionalism only goes so far, their...
I don't think this... whatever this is... deserves its own thread. Long COVID and the importance of the doctor–patient relationship...
Continuing on that thought, it's worth keeping in mind that the current vaccination strategy will eventually make LC the dominant problem. Not...
Important to emphasize. The process of dehumanization, of calling us mere trolls and campaigners, shields the fact that they are talking this way...
Oh yeah really nice that this self-proclaimed expert is noticing *checks note* the hallmark symptom of the disease he claims expertise in. I guess...
I don't know where else to put that, it doesn't really deserve its thread. Or maybe there is a thread and I couldn't find it. But malingering is...
Hey, it's not as if this has real life consequences or anything. Oh, wait. It does. Uh. Weird. Do no harm... or else: nothing? Absolutely...
I find it hard not to conclude that much of this is an act played out publicly to an audience of fellow physicians who support anything they do no...
He insisted that ME (well, CFS to him) is just fatigue and nothing else. So he genuinely has no idea what ME is at all, he's just spewing what...
It's certainly nothing unusual when comparing to how most talk about us on medical forums. Or about patients in general, frankly.
This would be called extremely lossy compression in information theory, it loses 90%+ of the information. Think of a JPEG at 50% quality, applied...
Taking the low-end of $36B per year, with the US representing approx. 20% of the world's GDP means roughly $180B per year (with a high over...
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