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  1. Sean

    News from Germany

    Yep. It is inconsistent nonsense, that places patients in a very nasty double-bind.
  2. Sean

    Cochrane review: Non-pharmacological interventions for somatoform disorders and medically unexplained physical symptoms (MUPS) in adults. 2014

    The intervention groups reported no major harms... because the researchers didn't measure them.
  3. Sean

    Hidden Within Us - A Radical New Understanding of the Mind-Body Connection (Book by Dr Samuel Mann)

    Grifters gonna grift.
  4. Sean

    United Kingdom: News from BACME - British Association of Clinicians in ME/CFS

    I have never been happy with the fatigue word.
  5. Sean

    A review of the treatment of functional neurological disorder with intensive short-term dynamic psychotherapy, 2022, Russell et al

    When evidence and reason become infinitely flexible, and up can be argued as down without being howled down with derisive laughter, then something is seriously broken.
  6. Sean

    an ‘invisible’ illness that benefits from a relationship-based care approach – BJGP Life, 2022

    Just another marketing effort to try hanging onto their unearned authority, and avoid accountability.
  7. Sean

    Who is Simon Wessely?

    :speechless:
  8. Sean

    Who is Simon Wessely?

    "medical royalty" When self-promotion and bootstrapping substitute for robust medical science. :rolleyes:
  9. Sean

    Long Covid in the media and social media 2022

    I like this Twitter tag: #OpinionBasedMedicine
  10. Sean

    Prevalence and characteristics of somatic symptom disorder in the elderly in a community-based population:.., 2022, Wu et al

    "However, the diagnostic criteria for somatization disorder defined in the DSM-IV have frequently been criticized as overly restrictive. Therefore, the DSM-5, which emphasizes broader concepts, now defines SSD as “symptoms that are difficult to explain after adequate evaluation; even when a...
  11. Sean

    Symptoms of Idiopathic Environmental Intolerance associated with chemicals (IEI-C) are positively associated with perceptual anomalies, 2022, Speck

    If the aetiology is unclear, then how can it be classified as functional?
  12. Sean

    Functional neurological disorder: new subtypes and shared mechanisms, 2022, Hallett, Dworetzky, Stone et al

    symptoms and signs that show variability within the same task and between different tasks over time. So therefore psychosomatic? Because no physiological pathology ever does that? Really? I am genuinely lost for words at that extraordinary claim. o_O Yes, the basic claim underneath all the...
  13. Sean

    (2022) "Weʼre raising £16,000 to Continue Dr Geraghty's Vital ME/CFS Research"

    Done. :thumbsup:
  14. Sean

    Mental health specialist video consultations for patients with somatic symptom disorder in primary care: protocol for a.., 2022, Haun et al

    This.
  15. Sean

    Mental health specialist video consultations for patients with somatic symptom disorder in primary care: protocol for a.., 2022, Haun et al

    Having to concentrate so hard on the marketing suggests strongly that your product is either a lemon, or just irrelevant to your 'customers' needs.
  16. Sean

    Mental health specialist video consultations for patients with somatic symptom disorder in primary care: protocol for a.., 2022, Haun et al

    I guess titling it 'How to lie more effectively to patients' might have caused some problems with the ethics scrutiny.
  17. Sean

    Cardiopulmonary Rehabilitation in Long-COVID-19 Patients with Persistent Breathlessness and Fatigue: The COVID-Rehab Study, 2022, Besnier et al

    They are using some objective outcome measures, including the primary outcome, which is good. But some concerns about the risk to those patients who have ME/LC type issues, particularly PEM. Hope they allow for that.
  18. Sean

    Crowdfunding: Trial By Error: Reporting on ME, CFS, ME/CFS, "Medically Unexplained Symptoms," and now Long Covid, April 2022

    Made my first donation today. Another one next pay. :thumbsup:
  19. Sean

    Health Sense article: Why deny patients with chronic fatigue syndrome treatments that can help?, 2022, by Peter White

    Why deny patients with chronic fatigue syndrome treatments that can help? Now that is some dishonest framing. Yep. It is dirty gutless behaviour.
  20. Sean

    Osteopathy and physiotherapy compared to physiotherapy alone on fatigue in long COVID: Study protocol for a pragmatic..., 2022, Curi et al

    As long as my chakras get realigned to the cosmic oneness, I'm good with it. :rolleyes:
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