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I guess I'm staying in Ireland for another post. Where they discuss.... money! It's all about money. Internal emails reveal concerns over welfare supports for long Covid...

Patient groups are reporting unmet needs that only professional healthcare services can provide. They are not provided, this is literally the 1st theme raised. It is constantly discussed on social media, how completely useless healthcare services are, how they don't help, how they gaslight and...

Absolute joke. None of this is even close to be serious.

Honestly, in this case, the question was poorly worded, allowing for a BS answer. The questions are always terrible, so much it's not even useful.

Appears to be the Irish health minister gushing over a... virtual GET program. I guess he must be completely unaware that exercise programs are already what most long haulers are told to do. And probably unaware of anything having to do with the NICE guidelines I also guess a health minister...

Heat intolerance is definitely a thing, also common in LC. It'd be great if it could be studied seriously. Drinking cold water is probably irrelevant in itself, and rather is about the same issue, just inside rather than outside. There have been some attempts with cold immersion therapy as well...

I'm assuming this seminar was reserved to professionals? It's really not getting better.

Comically revealing. Write well, appear witty and get max funding, I guess this looks about as good a description of Wessely's career trajectory and accomplishments. Not much else to be found. Oh, I guess a unhealthy dose of lack of self-awareness, it completes the picture so marvelously.

In this context, vague explicitly means common, as in too common to be helpful in differential diagnosis. So it could be useful to adopt that language, because that's what it means. It's from the perspective of how useful it is to the clinician to diagnose, it's not a qualifier on the symptoms...

Professionally, if I had been made aware of a highly controversial issue pushing some magical solution to a complex problem, finding that in real-life outcomes, literally not a single mention is made of any part of it, despite being the official paradigm, widely believed to be perfect and...

Unless those broken bits all coincidentally happened to have taken the same stringy shapes, this definitely ain't it. Bits that break off do not break off looking like this. Lumpy shapes, not knotty-stringy shapes. Plus they clearly don't follow the same script of a few your vision will ignore...

Wow, they skipped the whole feasibility phase? How did they know it was feasible to do such a trial without checking whether it's feasible to do it? And acceptable to patients? I'm still very confused about the purpose of those, and how common and mindlessly repetitive they are. Other than how...

It's frustrating that no one has ever checked what the damn floaters in our eyes are. Looking at my own, it's possible that they could be mitochondria, they certainly look like it. Super common with LC and they do not fit the description eye floaters typically have. Those are supposed to be...

Probably not as helpful as someone who actually understands it, but since SNPs are well-documented. rs1800955: "It is located in the promoter region of the DRD4 gene. This gene codes for the dopamine receptor D4." But, frankly, I'm not really convinced that much of this is credible, given, uh...

Good grief... Literally no one thinks physicians are infallible, it's painfully obvious how limited modern medicine remains. Well, clearly no one outside of medicine. We literally need this, except not for emperors: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Auriga_(slave) In ancient Rome, the auriga was...

Somehow, I imagine, psychopathology is not the same as physiopathology? Or some derp like that. Totally not dualists, though. You can't separate the mind from the body, unless, you know, as it's convenient.

One of the earliest arguments from our BPS overlords is precisely that they can't tell the difference, which to them means there isn't any. They seem to think it's a convincing argument, when actually it shows they clearly understand neither, and probably not much else. Ideology overrules both...

Imagine literally not talking with or reading from or listening to a single person with LC. Because that's the only possible way to somehow be completely oblivious to how absurdly incompetent it is to propose the same thing that has failed from the start. They seem to take a completely naïve...

By "stress-related mental disorders" they mean... essentially the ME criteria, framed slightly differently, with the modifier of a "identifiable stressor", except way more vague. So basically it means any illness not explained by a recognized diagnosis. I genuinely have no idea how research...

If you de-medicalize harms, no medical harms occurred. 100% success if you define success as not finding failure, by not allowing it to be found. It's infallible!