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Drs seem great at refuting suggestions for treatment, but clueless at resolving medical problems.

I think you can have sparkling but maybe don’t try it! I’d suggest a bottle of iced latte for when you’re sent out for a break, if there’s a shop or machine.

I’ve had a Quick Look back and found these two quotes about “TPN and Sectioning” It does seem that Dr Roy is the source of this idea, so will be interesting tomorrow to see why he thought it so relevant

Yes although weirdly the tube or TPN (in your vein?) feeding is fairly routinely given to people who can’t sit but do have a functioning gut.

That Reddit thread is toxic nonsense

Yes! ALS is known as Motor Neurone Disease in the UK I think?

Yes, the best cure for manifestations of mental health issues is to withold care until they just starts behaving themselves. In addition, do you know how difficult it is for the staff dealing with these patients… (sarcasm, in case anyone is wondering) I hope George Monbiot is going to write...

I suspect that those persons include the 2 nurses who are too ill to attend (reasons not given) Edit- I think it was mentioned on the first day that there was some disconcertion that a Consultant’s recommendation (for the Neurology ward for Maeve) had been overruled by the site management team...

The Council had a number of reasons why they couldn’t assess Maeve, essentially because she was too unwell to be visited by a social worker to be assessed, she was “in and out” of hospital. None of it is good enough. People are treated at home all the time. I do wonder whether the Council could...

It seems this is under the Heath &Social Care Act 2008 Regulations 2014 Regulation 14 https://www.cqc.org.uk/guidance-providers/regulations/regulation-14-meeting-nutritional-hydration-needs The Council basically said they couldn’t do an assessment for Care purposes, and when Maeve was...

Dr Roy’s evidence on this will be interesting. Dan Wyke on X twitter says tomorrow will be Dr Roy, Dr Warren and maybe Dr Tate (I’m not familiar with these or their specialities) Report of todays inquest in The Canary (I don’t know how to copy the text. sorry)...

I think colloquially, exertion is taken to mean “over and above” normal effort, so people would be thinking, oh so you can’t run a 5km run, rather than you can’t wash yourself.

Paul Keeble has some final comments on Social Care, apparently Dr Roy will be questioned tomorrow morning Maeve raised a safeguarding concern herself, about lack of care for her from the Council; Council has no record of this. Sarah Boothby was left to care for Maeve despite telling Council...

I am a little bit reassured that, around the internet, non-ME ppl are pointing out disorders and diseases where feeding is given by NG/PEG and saying “but we do it for X, why wouldn’t they do it for ME?” The public are able to see things like sensory issues, nutritional intake in other illnesses...

Some tweets about the questioning of Dr a weir by RD&E Hosp representative - of note is that Dr Weir is advising to go against Royal College of Physicians standards re feeding, which Dr Weir points out aren’t right for pwME

likely, but can’t confirm as no information on X either way. Maybe @dave30th can update us later?

I believe Dr Roy is the Gastroenterologist at the hospital and he was against TPN due to risk of sepsis, mentioned briefly yesterday. Assume he will have been called to give evidence to the Inquiry, we don’t know in advance who is appearing so we’ll have to wait to see.

I’m Jumping back to Dr Weir’s evidence, as I think this is a really key point, he referred to a report in 2002 regarding feeding for pw severe ME, a tweet suggests it’s this one. https://me-pedia.org/wiki/Chief_Medical_Officer_Report_2002 http://www.erythos.com/gibsonenquiry/docs/cmoreport.pdf...

Some tweets about Social Care evidence. It seems they “insisted” on contact with Maeve, eventually accepting she wasn’t able to do that

Dr Weir has finished. The next person is Mrs K Bradford of Exeter Council, Adult Social Services team manager