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This is the Lask, Dillon paper which recommends not burdening patients with a diagnosis of ME. https://adc.bmj.com/content/archdischild/65/11/1198.full.pdf

The history of GOSH and ME seems quite complex. Dillon's reporting of the epidemic there seemed very sensible, but he did later collaborate on a paper with Lask in about 1990 which gave pause for thought. I shall see if I can find it.

And, of course, if they have not self-prescribed a form of GET, they can always be dismissed as idle b...…. who just will not make any effort to make themselves better.

I had forgotten how bad things were with NICE until I went back to read the original MEA letter. So they have made it clear, have they, that when they use the term "functional disorder" they mean "emotionally generated", rather than a disorder of function of unidentified origin. What can be...

Either that or stupidity.

Whatever happened to the principle that the welfare of the child was the paramount consideration. Forty years ago it used to be in the Children's Act 1969, but will have been replaced by now.

Recommendation 30–Advice for suspected functional neurological disorders As functional neurological symptoms usually fluctuate and evolve with time, the committee agreed thatit was important to address the nature of the condition with people with this condition in order to allay concern about...

I am sorry if I have led people astray. I have major doubts about this. My comment was mainly directed at the title "Shine a light", which I presumed would be recognised as a well known euphemism.

Could they have been CFS patients if they did nothave a marked reduction in activity levels?

I just found this paper on the subject. It is not often that one finds such useful commentary. One presumes that the author is familiar with rhyming slang. Shine a Light Photobiomodulation and the brain – has the light dawned...

It is very odd. The interpretation to be drawn from the piece is that the patient in Wales has not been downstairs for almost two years, her partner has spoken to a doctor in England and he has recommended this treatment which entails crowdfunding. Should not a patient be actually seen, examined...

Presumably that would have been the occasion on which someone was found to be in possession of a small knife, for use in aiding the consumption of her packed lunch.

I don't understand the failure to correct simple errors, which could easily be put right. KK is presumably going to be writing another piece about Cochrane. She may already be being briefed about it, for all we know. Why would they want outstanding complaints to remain on the record when that...

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It seems strange that there hs never been any information as to how Peter Lilley and his department came to be in discussion with UnumProvident about this. It must have been as a result of lobbying and negotiations arising after the 1992 election. Perhaps the idea was to take Labour's election...

Perhaps a literature review would indicate the nature of the papers to which such, perfectly proper, rigour is shown.

My recollection is that it made clear the parameters of the investigation and either implied or stated that other matters were outwith the remit of the enquiry. It is hard to know whether it would be more serious to fail to understand that, or to misrepresent it.

The only quote I can think of which comes close to that would be from the Eliot Slater lecture www.margaretwilliams.me/2003/prof-wessely-lecture-notes_12may1994.pdf On looking at that again it is perhaps surprising that he has not reprised a variation of that all that all time favourite from...

I wonder where we would have been today if people had gone along with Holmes et al's original description of a "chronic mononucleosis like syndrome", rather than choosing "chronic fatigue syndrome".

I was reading about neurasthenia yesterday. Apparently the army had a post of "Inspector of temporary non-effectives". I thought that just about sums us up. Unless, of course, it's permanent.