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Interesting survey on vaccination outcomes in Long Covid (how vaccines affected pwLC). There have been a few already and it's consistent with them overall, but far more in-depth in terms of details, continuing the trend of amateur research (though from an expert) being far better than almost all...

Generally speaking, I am seeing less interest and reporting on LC but also more openness to working it all out together. Even though evidence is confirming how it's actually worse. Healthcare truly and mostly is political in the end. It's not a discipline where science can simply overrule debate...

I think it was just a few weeks ago that IIRC the health minister, maybe?, said that they're not really seeing any Long Covid in Australia, not a concern to them, there's nothing to do here. Or maybe the president of the medical association? And we're really supposed to have our lives in the...

And yet, this was always the natural course this ideology would take, to pretend that it is. Anyone up for some CBT: Cognitive Buddhism Therapy? It's not as if there's any actual difference, about as much as mispronouncing the words while taking the Book of the dead. Mind. Body. Spirit. Well...

Amateurs. They're supposed to call their critics dangerous activists and reject the premise that they did anything wrong while working to get them fired behind the scenes. At least that's the standard now.

For severe patients, sure. They should also be followed by a GP, though. Otherwise it makes little sense. But the needs of severe patients are much more than nurses can do unless they are assigned 1:1 full time, which makes no sense and won't happen. It does nothing for the vast majority of...

If you look at the quotes, they fall so far short of flattery it's not even funny. They sound more like things to say to someone in a suicide crisis, trying to find reasons why it's worth living, and only coming with generic platitudes of no importance that could be said of anyone. And they are...

That makes zero economic sense. Or any sense at all, since they would make no difference. What would the nurses even do? Be around? For what? I don't understand how people can be willing to do useless things when they already can't keep up with all the useful things that are needed. This is...

Another optional requirement. This is obviously not a service evaluation. Not quite research either but it loosely meets the technical definition of needing this requirement. Obviously no service was evaluated here, this is extremely insulting to our intelligence. They obviously know this and...

Imagine telling car mechanics that when they can't figure out how to fix a car, they spend time with the client going over the things that work or isn't broken in the car. And you can't even imagine that because it's too silly. Also, this: Is just word salad. This is publish-or-perish...

All familiar, all known issues before, all still ignored. The same ugly discrimination and disregard for patients.

Uh, yeah, because there's nothing professional grade. That doesn't make it a good thing. It's the same reason people used to do weird stuff back then, that didn't make them any good. We really shouldn't be dealing with nonsense like this. As for meditation "enhancing immunity", we are in...

Yikes. The pre-selection effect of this much woo is just as strong as a study of astrology that essentially requires belief in astrology. This is patient selection, most pwME wouldn't be found dead anywhere near this quackery.

Sounds more like chronic illnesses and their consequences are commonly labeled as PTSD. Which is consistent with how things like MUS are operationalized. It's a common practice, so it would lead to massive over-labeling like this. We find the exact same thing with depression, anxiety and various...

It's actually hard to point out all the things that are wrong because there are just so many. Starting with the fact that pacing is not, and cannot be used as, an intervention or a treatment. Especially a distortion of pacing that makes it GET-by-lying, showing Lloyd still doesn't have a clue...

First of all, that's not a "sense" or a "feeling", it's the literal argument. ME is not taken seriously at all, on the basis of a BS model. This is a simple fact. If it makes physicians sad because it makes them look bad, the solution to this is entirely in their hands, we cannot help them deal...

How the hell does a profession that's supposed to be based on science believes in this crap? When it's described honestly it's as delusional as the humors or any of the obsolete stuff ever was. Turn the argument: "the patient heals anyway" and apply it to literally every pseudoscience out there...

Obviously, it's 100% intentional. The time to mince words has ended long ago. This negligence will continue until it is made to stop, it will not end on its own. Even with LC too many have staked everything on doing the wrong thing yet again, it's too embarrassing to admit.

I can't really see a fast heart rate as having anything to do with "anxiety". Exercise/exertion increase heart rate. Too much caffeine. Sepsis. Epinephrine injection. Lots of stuff increases heart rate in ways that have nothing to do with any feelings. It's usually a response to exertion, to an...

At this point, I can't escape to notice that what people mean by anxiety or stress, especially as a medical concept, explicitly means: things people don't like. Could be pain, working a bad job, having limited options, being pushed around or generally doing things people don't enjoy. I've been...