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That explains a lot. Contradicted even by the actual evidence.

More than 40 years for me – my entire adulthood – and I still struggle with it every day, especially as I am now too old to have any real chance of a half decent life, even if a perfect cure became available tomorrow. There is just no way back from such an extreme degree of loss, abuse, and...

Or just carried them and their wheelchair up the stairs.

Agree, though worth adding that not all bias is against minorities. Women are not the minority of the population.

Still recommended and free for all here in Australia, though not compulsory. I just had a booster on Monday, and it has knocked me about a bit. Nothing too serious, but I have had better weeks. :ill:

Few places hide bigotry behind a veneer of respectability more than psychiatry and psychology.

+1 I am increasingly of the view that the whole formalised rehab approach, with few exceptions, has been a disaster. It has metastasised out of control way beyond any benefit to the vast majority of all patients. Important distinction. Rehab basically doesn't work for ongoing active disease...

Yep. He is giving the people in political and economic power something they desperately want: pseudo-scientific, pseudo-medical, pseudo-compassionate excuses for their shitty policies and decisions.

Arse covering. Follow the 'protocol' and you will be safe from having to face the consequences of doing so.

This is the line the PACE crowd push about any bad outcomes from GET. They claim it is all just inappropriate implementation by inadequately trained therapists, not anything wrong with the therapy itself. I wouldn't even describe it as a model. More like a lurid fantasy they cannot let go of.

:banghead:

Whatever hold this guy has over the political establishment must be powerful indeed to be allowed to endlessly fail upwards. What next? Sainthood?

Dec 2023, according to who.is

The gold standard for perverse incentives. Par excellence, one might even say. It's from The Big Short, about the corruption in the US housing market and its eventual collapse in 2008, and how little accountability there was for it. There are two other movies about that human-made disaster...

The next meeting of the ME/CFS GDC is planned for late October 2025 and will focus on gaining a shared understanding of the GRADE (Grading of Recommendations Assessment, Development and Evaluation) methods approach. Uh-oh. :grumpy:

:emoji_clap::emoji_clap::emoji_clap: It is impossible to overstate how much long-term damage is being done.

Without decisive action, the long-term societal cost of long COVID will continue to rise. FFS, when are governments and the general community going to accept that improving indoor air quality, and basic masking, are two of the best and most sustainable protections we have against all air-borne...

Shutting up?

Fun fades, but irritation is infinite. IIRC, Claude Shannon, one of the greats of 20th century science, said he was not motivated by any grand noble principles or ideals, like the search for truth, or wanting to do good for humanity, etc. No, it was simply being irritated by the flaws and...

Don't expect any help from the RACGP.