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I see the hands of insurance companies and government in this. Governments just want to save money in any fashion they can, and insurance companies don't want to pay out on their policies for long term healthcare - and they can achieve this by saying that all disease is effectively rooted in a...

I'm sorry too, I was being over-sensitive. I was apparently declared to be a mentally ill drug-seeker during my teens, based on the remarks of an incompetent surgeon, and that diagnosis is still "in force" today. I'm now in my 60s and my quality of life has been determined by the fact I appear...

I'm not going to defend this post, but I just thought it might interest someone. Title : Post-COVID Persistent Symptoms By Dr Eric Berg (who is a chiropractor not a doctor of medicine)

I suspect that the diagnosis of FND won't disappear. It will probably be glued to you and your medical records for the rest of your life.

I'm not quite sure what you are trying to tell me. My mother-in-law was depressed because she was in excruciating pain with ovarian cancer which spread through other parts of her body. She wasn't psychotic or suffering from delusions. And before she became ill she was not depressed. Please don't...

From the quote in post #8 above... How do these record numbers of patients get appointments?

My mother-in-law was assumed to be depressed and attention-seeking because nobody could find the cause of her excruciating pain. After she was dismissed she was put on anti-depressants. Three months later she died of ovarian cancer which had metastasized. If doctors spend lots of time ruling...

I didn't watch the program being discussed. But every time I read about the NHS being described as broken or some other derogatory words being used (often justified, I agree) I start to worry that the response to this will be "Well, if the NHS is broken then let's have a private system." Any...

This effect has been found to be very overblown in most people, and only applies to those who take a lot more salt than average. https://www.acsh.org/news/2018/08/10/spoonful-salt-makes-blood-pressure-go-down-13289 Increasing potassium has been found to reduce blood pressure by relaxing...

Can anyone tell me how blood volume is measured?

That is horrific, @Wonko That is one of my worst fears - being awake and paralysed while having surgery.

I think one sadistic facet of medical ideology (not just BPS, in this case) is that damage to the body can't hurt after it has healed up, even if that damage has caused permanent scarring and adhesions, resulting in tissues, muscles, nerves, blood vessels and organs which have been stretched...

I was under the impression that Evidence Based Medicine was introduced in the 90s to get rid of "medicine by consensus" because consensus very often ignored scientific evidence, and just took the opinions of the "leaders" in any field - which is to say the old male doctors who controlled the...

Link : https://www.theguardian.com/education/2019/dec/18/women-have-been-woefully-neglected-does-medical-science-have-a-gender-problem Title : 'Women have been woefully neglected': does medical science have a gender problem? My emphasis... I realise that people with ME, both male and female...

Female patients have tried challenging gaslighting, but in a relationship where the doctor has all the power what can women do?

This actually reminds me of the fact that, at one time, babies were operated on without anaesthetic because doctors believed that babies couldn't feel pain. https://www.newsweek.com/when-doctors-start-using-anesthesia-babies-medics-thought-they-couldnt-feel-pain-1625350 The article was...

My parents thought that children and teenagers couldn't be depressed because "what have you got to be depressed about?". The fact that I went to school and didn't have to work for a living meant I had no stress or cause for depression. Similarly, they believed that children couldn't suffer from...

Vitamin and mineral deficiencies can alter the degree to which we can taste at all, or can alter the flavour of what we taste.

Thanks, @Snow Leopard and @Woolie :thumbup:

It's a barb because once a patient of any age has been declared to be anxious or depressed they tend not to get any real tests to uncover health problems. And those warning flags about anxiety and depression will stay on the child's records for the rest of their lives. They just get sent to...