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Article from Malcolm Kendrick's blog that may be of interest... Article continues : https://drmalcolmkendrick.org/2020/03/18/coronavirus-covid-19/

This is just for interest - I'm definitely NOT recommending this, so please don't try it at home! In people who are otherwise healthy but have a fever drinking plenty of water can reduce the fever. I wonder if cutting back on liquid intake would create a higher fever in someone who was ill? My...

A very good video presentation, easy to understand, and I found it useful. Please note that towards the end the presenter stops talking but there is more info to read beyond that point. I was particularly taken with the information on cholesterol.

I'm from the UK. I say PEM as a word, I don't spell it out.

Merged thread Article continues here : https://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/926682

With the talk of banishing people aged 70+ to stay in their own homes for four months I actually wonder what the score will be at the end of that time when comparing the numbers who starved to death and those who died of coronavirus.

My addition to the above three criteria : Whether the concept is useful to patients is of no interest or relevance to anyone so don't worry about it It is important to remember that being able to pull the wool over patients' eyes is an integral and vital part of the naming process

I was in Lidl today, around 6pm, and it was the most packed I've ever seen it. I wondered what the logic of that was in relation to the virus issue, and I still haven't worked it out.

For finding a gas bottle supplier this link might help : https://www.calor.co.uk/gas-bottles/retailers Camping shops may be a good source. It is also possible that some coal and/or log merchants may also sell gas bottles. And also possibly petrol stations.

Years ago my husband and I had a three bar fire which ran off a large calor gas bottle. We just used it as an extra source of heat on top of the central heating because our house was very poorly insulated at the time. What took us by surprise was the upfront cost of buying the first gas...

An interesting article dated 31/01/2020 about the US response to coronavirus : https://foreignpolicy.com/2020/01/31/coronavirus-china-trump-united-states-public-health-emergency-response/ And another one which mentions test kits ...

I just read this twitter thread about the situation with coronavirus in northern Italy : https://twitter.com/jasonvanschoor/status/1237142891077697538 People don't need a twitter account in order to read public twitter threads.

I never cease to find it amazing that so many members of the medical profession manage to make a living out of being useless diagnosticians. Not only do they make an excellent living out of being so useless they manage to blame the damn patients for the uselessness of the doctors as well...

How can ingesting fat make you exhausted?

I see that FND Portal overcomes his/her lack of replies to his/her tweets by replying to him/herself over and over and over again.

They've largely solved the problem of autopsies showing up that the doctor was wrong and the patient was really ill by cutting down dramatically on the number of autopsies that are done in the UK. I'm sure that someone diagnosed with FND would be bottom of the pile for an autopsy if they had...

In my opinion... Any patient who is classed as being a "doctor-shopper" by an average doctor is disliked because doctors don't like to believe that any of their number can be utterly useless. But sadly, 50% of doctors are less capable than the average doctor.

Me too. I won a ballpoint pen and a certificate. The competition was run by or sponsored by the pen company Platignum. The pen never worked! I think I still have the certificate in the loft somewhere.

I've had an intermittent problem for years with writing, that is getting worse the older I get and the less practice I have at it. (I have very little reason to write these days.) I can start writing and suddenly I'll lose control of my arm and hand and I will just scribble. If you imagine...

For the article about endometriosis it starts at 22:58.