Review by Tom Siegfried of a thesis by Christopher Blunt which analyzes evidence-based medicine’s evidence hierarchies.
https://www.sciencenews.org/blog/context/critique-medical-evidence-hierarchies
That's what the insurance companies want to hear. A bit of CBT GET, and then just throw away the patients if they are non responders to these wonderful and efficient treatments.
That's basically the core issue with the Association française du Syndrome de Fatigue Chronique (both Laurent Chiche and Pr de Korwin, interviewed in Le Figaro's article are members of the scientific board). They put biomedical and BPS research on the same level. So they praise the IOM report...
From what I've heard about people who had an appointement with Dr Laurent Chiche, he psychologises the illness, is not compasionnate at all and does not believe a diagnosis is useful...
No date on the page, but it seems recent.
CF in the title.
The advices are AfME's, not completely BS, but not satisfactory either:
Did the journalist misunderstood?
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-32503/What-you-chronic-fatigue.html
by James C Coyne November 16, 2017
https://www.coyneoftherealm.com/blogs/news/no-seats-on-the-us-institute-of-medicine-advisory-commitees-are-not-for-sale-despite-what-the-dutch-parliament-was-told
Quite old, but I just came across that. Interesting thoughts from someone suffering depression who underwent CBT:
https://morgueticiasmentalhealthmausoleum.wordpress.com/2015/04/28/cognitive-bullshit-therapy/
PS/this does not belittle the experience of those who were helped by CBT. IMO, a...
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