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I don't know why it is but I always think that BDS stands for British Dentists (or Dental or Dentistry) Society. :banghead: :confused:

From the quote in the first post : I do remember reading that doctors and surgeons didn't believe that babies and small children could feel pain, so they operated on them without anaesthetic and often refused to provide pain relief after surgeries ...

I wasn't aware of that. That's more like how I experience it.

I think it has its roots in Puritanism and/or the Protestant Work Ethic.

There is a reference to brain fog in the quote in post #2919 One thing I've noticed when anyone describes brain fog... If someone has never had it they don't seem to be able to grasp what it is. But once someone has developed it, temporarily or permanently, they never seem to have any...

There are researchers discovering that people can sometimes reduce the severity of their mental illnesses using good nutrition as a treatment - improve their diet and treat them with vitamins and minerals and people start to feel a whole lot better. Ketogenic diets have been helpful in many...

This idea that "maladaptive perfectionism" is a problem amongst patients with ME has always puzzled me. I look at myself, my life, my home, and I don't see any evidence of this perfectionism at all. Is it just a cheap way of categorising people as mentally ill, even when it is absolute nonsense?

Thank you. I've never managed to remember those US abbreviations about diagnoses and treatments with an x on the end (Rx, Dx and ???), and yet most Americans use them without batting an eyelid about it. And I've never heard of a Digital Therapeutic treatment before either, so I learn something...

What does DTx mean?

I've always wanted to know if chronic pain caused by known physical damage that will never heal (scarring and adhesions) is considered to be a functional condition or not. Can anyone tell me?

https://twitter.com/MaryClayton13/status/1333088969102397443 I don't understand Tomlinson's replies to MaryClayton13. He doesn't make it clear whether he thinks endometriosis, lupus, rheumatoid arthritis or Ehlers Danlos syndrome actually exist? Or they are caused by childhood trauma? Or...

From The Guardian link in post #2788 This makes me want to punch the author. I don't want to be soothed about any health problem I have. I want to be investigated and treated for physical problems. The psychological stuff must come later, if it is needed at all.

***Shudder***

This reminds me of other articles on ME/CFS that I've read in The Guardian. They follow the SMC (and Reuters?) playbook, if I remember correctly.

I had the same problem of depression with melatonin when I first tried it, about 8 - 10 years ago. I bought some 3mg pills but found that gave me a thumping headache so I started cutting them up into smaller chunks. But although the smaller dose reduced the headache problem a bit it didn't solve...

Race to the bottom?

I've taken Augmentin in pill or capsule form more than once, but I can't remember what for. It didn't cause me any memorable side effects at all.

I've never seen that poll before and I found many of the things that had been voted for as "non-diseases" quite shocking. It made me wonder what the doctors responding to the poll thought a disease actually is. After all, doctors treat high blood pressure and high cholesterol, and yet some...

Usually. I can't know under those circumstances. But I'm lucky - I get far fewer headaches these days since I had surgery for my hydrocephalus. And the ones I do get are rarely as bad as they used to be.

Title : Excess deaths from Black, Asian, and Minority Ethnic Doctors during the Covid-19 Pandemic Link : http://www.drdavidgrimes.com/2020/11/covid-19-vitamin-d-deaths-of-doctors.html