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Garbage article from The Times that uses ME as a punching bag and misrepresents everything. https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/my-mother-munchausens-and-me-by-helen-naylor-review-7v8ts3w77 However, starting abruptly in 1991, when Elinor was in her thirties and Naylor was seven, her mother...

Good article from a GP with Long Covid. Other than not naming ME but mentioning PEM... But I think she knows since she tagged Doctors with ME on Twitter, so it's odd that the article does not mention anything about this being an old problem. Focuses mainly on dysautonomia and neurological...

Today in tales from dystopian nightmares, a discussion of Long Covid between health officials in the Netherlands and patient advocates has been pushed back to next year... because of the high number of infections. Which will increase the problem further. When you don't understand the problem to...

French medicine continuing to push very hard for psychosomatizing Long Covid. The narrative is pushed everywhere.

Thread on LC with many sources. Good overview of the issue so far.

This is probably a very nice public health message but the audience that needs to hear this is not watching this on television and will not care for this message. It's medical professionals who need to hear this, and also for those empty words to have substance. Health care is completely...

Many annoying things in this article, including people musing how many will need cognitive rehabilitation. Going 2 years into this and they can't even move on from their delusions, they still cling to their failed models no matter how much reality punches them in the face. It's a shame that the...

Seems reasonable but seeing behind the curtains how medicine works for the last several years makes a strong compelling case that it could be just as common with other vaccines, medicine simply has no way of knowing and probably doesn't even want to know, given how problematic it would be for...

More incoherent ramblings from people who are themselves the problem, arguing the problem as a solution to itself. Medicine has refused to apply science to this problem despite having decades to do so, and so the solution can only be more of the same pseudoscience that is reaching a crisis...

Still the framing of fatigue... ugh. Medicine seriously has to deal with the fact that sick is a perfectly acceptable word and that often it's the only one that applies.

See also: "lie detectors". They detect something. It's an actual objective measurement. Does it detect lies or honesty? Of course not. An effect is irrelevant, it's easy to have "an effect". "The book moved on its own" is an effect that can be argued to be a ghost. Means nothing at all, people...

I wonder how the people at Cochrane are handling it, especially those involved with decisions about us. What do they think of one of their section editors and major figure promoting blatant quackery and basically bigotry against patients? I'm not sure I'd like the answer to that. Especially...

And obviously large puddles on the ground lead to large clouds. And famine is what causes crops to die in the fields. Are these people aware that being sick as a young adult leads to exactly this? Again they are looking at the very obvious and normal outcomes of a situation and simply can't...

What is it when a "clinic" chooses the easiest, most likely to "recover" patients, regardless of what they do? A sham, is what it is. They want the salary but they don't want to do the work. Document here:

They hear patients saying that health services don't understand anything about the disease, that it's the main obstacle to improving things, and their conclusions seems to be that they are unable to understand it any better that and therefore nothing more can be done on their end. How are these...

If it's not done systematically I don't see how it could be useful. If it were done systematically it very likely would, but it wouldn't be obvious until it's done systematically for long enough, and it isn't done since it hasn't been done yet and therefore not judged to be useful, since the...

Nothing groundbreaking or new but an interesting quote to follow up on. Here of course we meet the problem of denied disability. It's not that they aren't disabled, it's that they aren't recognized as disabled. The outcomes for both scenarios are of course vastly different. Long Covid’s...

Many of those symptoms are present in the acute phase. But they wouldn't know that because it would require listening to the patients and taking their reports as useful information outside of the specific context of in-patient admission. In the acute phase of an infectious illness, medicine has...

Lots of bad comments about this so far, looks heavy on the BPS.