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Nope. You won't. Promising that is just dishonorable, they *know* there is no treatment, deep down at least, behind the thick hopium smoke. They say this because they still believe it's trivial and always goes away, it's a BS legal disclaimer. They say there are treatments and that they will...

The CDC has acknowledged that COVID infections cause long-term health issues in all bodily systems. Buried in a brief about how to code deaths. Not much public awareness of this, the hopium must flow. The starting position regarding this was that this would never happen, because "viruses don't...

It's hard to put into perspective just how morally and intellectually bankrupt the BPS model is, how disastrous the decades of coercive implementation have been. In threads like this, What are your most serious symptoms?, universally what you find is that none of the BPS stuff is ever...

Put plainly, medicine has made zero useful progress in understanding illness and symptoms, has no further knowledge than a century ago, or any point beyond. In fact, is obviously unable to deal with the subjective nature of illness. There seem to be two ways to solve this: objectifying the...

Oh yeah. Plenty. It's probably the only thing that works, actually. From the most basic disability rights to the AIDS crisis, without a lot of political activism, medicine would be even worse than it is today. But you need a critical mass, lots of healthy allies. Or at least cognitively...

Totally serious. Evidence sure is being generated. Accidental honesty. Same approach as with CBT/GET they did with PACE. "We're testing it, but we know that it works so let's use it immediately, once you do that it's impossible to stop". They counted chickens and they didn't even have any eggs...

Honestly, a lot of this feels like someone forgot the #1 rule of warfare: it's all logistics. Militaries are about logistics even more than they are about fighting, because it's through logistics that they get the most out of their soldiers. For every boot on the ground you have 5-10 doing...

When your whole job can be replaced by a simple app, your job is worthless. Not a single valuable job can be replaced with something as simple as this. This is not about AI replacing jobs, there is no AI here. It's a mindless script that can be easily coded by a second year computer science...

They literally don't understand that social support isn't some abstract thing? That it means actual support? Tangible, physical in real life. It's not like someone encouraging you while you're moving out. It's someone actually helping you move out. By moving stuff from where it is to where it...

Hard not to understand it as condoning and encouraging exactly what the complaints are about. In fact it's pretty much impossible not to. This is really zero degree of separation from "a psychosocial approach will continue until complaints about a psychosocial approach cease". Which is never, of...

I think those attitudes are more widespread than is generally understood, and far from limited to us. The number of times I have seen physicians basically express the opinion that nearly all diseases are "lifestyle", that if people weren't so stupid and behaved healthily most diseases could be...

Given how Canada often copies the UK in these matters, and how we have been going on full-speed with medically-assisted death, often easier to access than even minimal medical care. Ugh. We really don't care for one another as a species. We truly are our worst enemy.

If all you want is for your patients to stop coming to see you, you could just slap them in the face and call them names. That will also work. Unless they like that, of course, but I doubt it would be statistically significant in a random sample. Of course the question is why is this a valuable...

The ignorance of this man is astounding. Women, especially youth, have been the driving force of the recent protests in Iran. The government is very much targeting them, to punish and terrorize. And not even knowing that schools are segregated. It's ignorant of politics, frankly of anything...

It's an editorial, not a paper. It's a bunch of opinions, I doubt there is peer review for those. More likely trying to time it with some other PR effort and coordinate in a campaign.

Sounds like the same old nonsense using slightly different words. When you don't count the misses, it's easy to claim success. As long as you don't really care whether it's any true. These people never check afterward, they all use the same logical fallacy: patient didn't come back = better...

When you look at what the BPS model of medicine has to offer: arts & crafts, sing-alongs, tea and snacks, meditation, light exercise, look at cuddly pet pictures, share your feelings in a circle, white (and not so white) lies to "comfort"... and you have to wonder, is this scientific medicine...

A "possibility" of improvement in the next 30 or so years. "Future" treatments, that are actually literally the old treatments that are known to fail, may work. Somehow. According to some gut feeling. Or whatever. An entire life thrown out using complete BS as excuse. Not even pretending to...

Looking forward to using the inevitable FOIA bot that helps automate all of this and produces nice summaries of key points and discussions, no matter how obscure or veiled. Everything digital and legally accessible will be discoverable. Whatever is going on, we'll find out. Too late for many...

And now there is going to be so much more of that with the restrictions that in many cases will cut millions of people from pain medication. Gotta love unintended consequences that are entirely predictable and therefore not quite unintended so much as not bothered with. As long as it happens to...