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This is what sprung to mind when I read this :

If MUS are so common it suggests that today's doctors aren't taught how to diagnose anything very much, at least if the problem is not visible. From the experience of friends and relatives over the last few years : Doctors took : 1) 1 year to diagnose ovarian cancer - by the time it was...

This has already happened. I went to an A&E 70 miles from home in spring last year following a minor accident. I thought I might have broken my arm. I had never set foot in this particular hospital in my life before. When I gave my name and address the receptionist looked me up on her computer...

or an alternative title I came up with was "The Day That Medicine Died". Link : https://emcrit.org/emnerd/the-case-of-the-scientific-ruse/ Article continues here : https://emcrit.org/emnerd/the-case-of-the-scientific-ruse/

I never knew that journal even existed!

Snap! I did get a reduction in pain levels with the TCAs. But I also got tachycardia. And the tachycardia was intolerable, so I had to give the TCAs up. The amitriptyline gave me a heart rate of around 150 bpm, the nortriptyline gave me a heart rate of 135 bpm. Neither was tolerable for very...

Link to the above paper : https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0399077X18307923

I was aware of the problem with diphenhydramine. I had really severe sleeping problems a few years ago and took the maximum dose of the stuff every night for several months. Eventually I got all sorts of new health problems developing that I traced to the diphenhydramine and I stopped taking...

[My bold] It is my understanding that many doctors in the UK would disagree with the idea that a functional disorder is not psychiatric. Many of them blame the patient's mental health and tell them they are probably stressed and they should lose some weight, do some exercise, and get plenty of...

My emphasis. I've tried sleeping on sleeper trains between Scotland and England, and failed miserably. This was many years ago, I don't know if the service still exists. I've also struggled to sleep on cruise ships. The idea of sleeping or trying to sleep while constantly moving sounds like my...

An anecdote : I've been told by someone that many patients don't understand how antibiotic resistance occurs. At the time that people were being urged to "complete the course" when they were prescribed antibiotics quite a few patients stopped taking them early because they were worried that by...

Off-topic, but I got quite excited when I read this (I'm very deaf) and went looking for them. Unfortunately I got the message that was approximately... "You're in the UK, get lost, we don't sell to the likes of you".

There might be evidence of a problem when the Office of National Statistics puts together the causes of death statistics. But then they will probably just interpret this as people (mainly women) ignoring all the "good" advice from the government i.e. lower cholesterol, avoid "artery-clogging...

@Trish posted a link in this post : https://www.s4me.info/threads/trial-by-error-some-thoughts-about-an-upcoming-article.7944/page-5#post-140485 to a description by Keith himself of how Holgate got involved ...

If I was a betting person I would suggest that, wherever this article about @dave30th appears, readers won't be allowed to leave comments. I would also suggest that Dr Tuller is unlikely to be given the right of reply. I really hope I'm wrong though.

Perhaps people should warn any interested MPs that this might be on its way.

I was taught from a very young age that expressing pain made me a "naughty" child. I would sometimes be punished or threatened with punishment if I made what my parents thought was "too much fuss" or "made a fuss about nothing". I was accused at various times in childhood and adulthood of being...

@Invisible Woman Personally, I've believed for the last few years that one major aim of the Powers-That-Be (PTB) is to kill off the poor and old, and the poor and chronically sick earlier than they would otherwise die - and doctors have to be brought onboard with that, otherwise they might...

Depression, anxiety, attention-seeking, hypochondria, drug seeking, somatising.

Wonderful! Loved it! Thank you, @dave30th ! :hug: