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And not even in a subtle way, it's the most extreme level of bias in all the professions, completely off the charts. Even in politics this used to ultimately backfire. Not anymore, but it used to.

I thought it was pretty good. It certainly did better at capturing the experience of chronic illness than the entire biopsychosocial literature. It's easy to do better than a burning hole in the ground, so it doesn't take much, but it managed to do it. Most of the criticism I see so far is...

A few studies, from memory. That Australian public health officer who made headlines a few years ago saying the term Long Covid should be retired used an Australian study showing similar rates between flu and COVID. I think a few other pathogens did as well, but from other studies. So basically...

That seems like an extremely unusual amount of medical care. As in something like what about 100 average pwME would have over our their entire lives. I have never read or heard any account of anyone getting anywhere close to this level of attention other than serially, as in trying again and...

The even more absurd things is that psychosomatic medicine cannot ever measure outcomes because then it reveals the whole scam. Same reason why alternative medicine doesn't measure outcomes. You don't measure when you know nothing changes. But they will say it. They will pretend like it's a...

Which is perfectly normal given that there is zero meaningful support, professional or otherwise. A cure is the only good way out. The idea that sick people will just give up is so absurd that it's literally the main message about the behavioral treatments: "well, then, just give up and spend...

It's also completely transparent bullshit. Physicians have to deal with this every day. Well, most of them anyway. People die of diseases medicine can't do anything about every single minute. And about the only way we happen to end up dying because of this illness is the negligence. So they are...

This, uh, 'study' is as perfect as it gets to emphasize how biopsychosocial everything needs to be shut down entirely. It serves absolutely no purpose, to the point of being comically incompetent. It's become a top 5 most harmful ideology in human history, especially because it's made to look so...

Honestly, the FND fanatics don't hesitate to do that, have even done that multiple time in 'studies' and other academic output. So, really, go for it, at least when it comes to ye olde conversion disorder. It's not a good idea to fight back against something with our hands behind our backs when...

I don't know, the fact that they are definitely winning this despite how completely mediocre everything they are doing is only shows how there are deep forces within the profession pushing for this that truly don't care what's real or isn't and we just can't find shadows. They can get away with...

Uh, you're not doing that right now. No one is. How does that even work? If you can't do this for the current/ongoing pandemic featuring literally millions of people who need medical help but aren't getting it because the necessary work was never done, how can you do what you're not doing for...

That's pretty funny considering how millions of people use it for both, and how much evidence clinical trials produce for junk treatments that almost no one uses on their own because they don't work for them. For me the difference in quality of life is enormous, and easily represents 2-3 more...

At least stories like this make a strong point about attributing improvement onto specific treatments, including rehabilitation and how it's what usually gets that coverage. In a sane world it would make a difference. It would change things. Ah, to live in a sane world. What a fantasy.

This felt comically awful enough to read a bit further. All the "strengths" they list in the highlights are purely aspirational. Assertion-based medicine: because I say so. Gee, I wonder why this fails. So two of the "patient representatives" were themselves clinicians. You'll never guess how...

They are already getting this "biopsychosocial approach", and it's why it "results in unsatisfactory and challenging care experiences". What are they even talking about here? Pretending like they're just getting started with this and that their ideas have not been tried before. There are people...

I have rarely seen anything as appalling as the people creating a system of discrimination pretending to be fighting for the little guy. They are really trying to pretend that people opposing their psychosomatic dogma are the real stigmatizers here. And failing, obviously, this is a pathetic...

Reality is what continues to exist whether you believe in it or not. Psychosomatic ideology was always never but a belief system, and as such it holds absolutely no value. Yeah this is very rare. Most anonymous comments from MDs I see make it clear how their experience of chronic illness is...

Yes, the problem has always been exertion. It's what defines the illness, and we already knew that. There is no need to bring 'stress' into this as it perfectly maps with exertion in every single way in the same way was "homeopathic treatment" can be substituted perfectly with "a glass of...

Quickly browsing through it, it's dreadful, this is just promotional material for psychosomatic medicine. They even bullshit about biopsychosocial being, well, not what it is. As is tradition. Ain't not true biopsychosocial. The bias is seriously even more blatant and over-bearing than any...

So that's 80% after two weeks. Probably lower than your typical new year's day resolution. That's actually rather low considering it's supposed to be rehabilitative. You gotta laugh at the idea that adherence at day 15 'predicts' adherence at day 21. Good grief they are latching on anything they...