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Well; he was from Oxford. And what a fine example of "newspeak" the "Enablement Directorate" is. With the SMC it is hard to be sure whether it is the grasp of science or language which is unusual. "The study made the first definitive comparison of various treatments for CFS/ME..."

Coercive?

It sometimes appears that the UK's mental health provision is merely an extension of homeopathy-like will cure like.

Tell us more about the samosa.

Shouldn't the title be "EDS and ME-is there a loose connection?"

Is there no end to her talents?

First impressions. One comes away from this with the sense that sense that Wessely feels the overwhelming need to say something, but is not quite sure what he wants to say. Now here is an interesting quote. "Goldberg and Bridges have suggested an influential definition of somatisation...

Well that's interesting. Someone seems to be concerned about damage to the brand, but who, and which brand?

To understand the significance of this it would be interesting to know how many of their videos suffer the same fate. Is this likely to be an exceptional event?

I tried reading that nonsense and it left me wondering whether the supposed shortage of doctors could not be overcome by redeploying some of them into productive work.

I could not find the Grauniad article but it is perhaps significant that this 1997 paper referred to the fact that "chronic fatigue had become invisible" with "no name...." https://www.researchgate.net/publication/13774809_Chronic_fatigue_syndrome_A_20th_century_illness Unfortunately you have...

Never let it be said.....

Well what does one expect? The main purpose of therapy is to satisfy the financial and emotional needs of the therapist.

@Woolie It must have been a pastiche of that statue of the bull that I saw. I could have sworn that it was entitled, "On the contemplation of a china shop, the biopsychosocial effect".

The crucial words in those NICE Guidelines appear to be "agree with them a level of ....etc". One wonders about the wording of the court orders. Do they override this requirement for agreement? Only someone with knowledge of current practice will know.

Don't worry about it. I am amazed by the English of you and many of our members. You even seem to understand jokes which pass others by.

This looks to be a question which we could properly enquire about. Is anyone aware of any published studies on the efficacy of this approach to severe paediatric ME. (Edited to remove information) If not what is the strength of the evidence for any studies relied on in this case? There seem...

Perhaps because it is not in the interests of the "establishment" to have an informed population able to make up their own minds and question decisions. It is only the would be elite who need such an education. My grandfathers view, learned in the trenches, was: "It's a free country. You're...

No. Its a medically unexplained joke. Self fulfilling. The effective intervention is the expedited discharge.

I wonder whether the choice of name (New Savoy) is determined by the wish to imply a taste for a lavish, expense account lifestyle, (which might be shared with those commissioning services) or a Gilbert and Sullivan sense of humour. Perhaps the second would be more appropriate for the...