It seems entirely framed around the impact it has on physicians and nothing on the patients themselves, barely an administrative concern. It's...
They know exactly what they're doing. They operate out of beliefs, not science.
Well, the PACE team pulled off dropping all objective measurements for the treatment arm built on an assumption of deconditioning based on the...
The "wellness journey" line seals it. Anyone confusing fatigue for ME can be safely ignored and told to go away and never come back.
A sub-zero sleeping bag will more than do the trick. Some are as good as -45C. Will likely not be found down south but from any online store in...
So, safety is confirmed. Moving on to efficacy in blinded trials? Effect seems to be minimal, though. As in it relieves some but doesn't do much...
The incompetence of every UK medical journal in promoting harmful BPS pseudoscience certainly suggests so. Aaron Swartz literally died for this....
Well, that's the PACE model: make shit up, break everything, provide no benefits whatsoever, give yourself a perfect grade. That's just the BPS wayTM.
More whitewashing. Still listed under research. Retroactive exemption from having failed basic (optional) requirements. The original article...
Yes! I mentioned home visits here but for most circumstances telemedicine would work just as well. I am skipping going to see my GP this year...
At some point it'd be really great if people, especially in medicine, stopped using the same tired old trope of people seeking attention and...
Have they ever met sick people? How are people who work in this field unaware that there are sick people out there who are too ill to leave the...
Timely link I found on the CFS sub-reddit:...
There really is a shocking number of physicians out there who put their personal opinion far above the lives of millions. That's definitely not...
That's a blatant lie. No excuse for this. It's a grotesque lie.
That literally contradicts the CBT model, that we need our thoughts and behaviors changed. Wanting to change is not consistent with having to...
Over 2 decades and still only ever have anecdotes to show for it. Zero refutation of all the evidence against, always trotting out anecdotes and...
Awards. Recognition. Fame. Self-serving ego stroking. All of which are more important that literally millions of lives. People involved in these...
Especially as the most likely to be prescribed drugs will be antidepressants and even most psychiatrists are either oblivious or in denial about...
Yes, this is critical. The "validation" that sick people need is not for ourselves, it's for everyone else. Modern societies have a social...
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