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Historians of medicine will describe this era as the Age of Acronyms.

Especially when those who created the mess are still in power and doing everything they can to prevent it being cleaned up. :grumpy:

Falling could be a secondary symptom in the elderly. If you are already getting unsteady on your feet, something like CFS could significantly exacerbate it. Similar possibilities for other common symptoms of ageing, like lower quality sleep, cognition, coordination, stamina, vision issues, etc.

Shh. Don't give them any ideas.

:speechless::speechless::speechless:

If you load up a car beyond its designed carrying capacity, it is not going to perform well or last long. Doesn't mean the design or construction of the car is at fault. Same for ME patients. If the ME places an excess burden on patients past their normal healthy capacity, then any additional...

A cynical person might think this is exactly the response Garner was trying to provoke. Until the veracity and provenance of the alleged threats is independently established, then he has nothing.

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Love the absolutism in play here: "patients require access to", instead of 'patients may require access to'. Because apparently humans are so predictably incompetent they need retraining and reintegration after every experience of adversity. According to the people whose income depends on...

And NICE want to form a close working partnership with this 'new improved' Cochrane?

"Recent developments in our understanding of functional neurology are translatable to other functional disorders and have laid the groundwork ..." Recent developments in our understanding of marketing functional neurology are translatable to other functional disorders and have laid the...

It has metastasized and is spreading quickly throughout medicine. This will not end well. :grumpy:

People feel good when they do things that make them feel good. Who knew? :facepalm:

Similar story with the woman, Barbara McClintock, who discovered 'jumping genes'. And later won an unshared Nobel prize for it. If you are not making enemies, you are not making progress. (Doesn't mean making enemies means you are making progress, just that making progress will make enemies of...

When you are used to getting away with bullshit for decades, and profiting handsomely from it, it is not easy to stop doing it, and for some completely impossible.

#AllTrials(exceptPACEandotherBPStrials)

Not to mention misdiagnosed and mistreated disease.

Nor has much choice about, due to the demands of the disease. This whole 'negotiated agreed plan and goals' stuff is just a dangerous dishonest farce, with any failure to stick to the plan and meet those goals being blamed on patients not trying hard enough when it inevitably fails due to being...

Is "sophisticated instruments" a euphemism? :whistle:

Follow the money. It will ultimately be the bean counters and actuaries who bring the axe down on the BPS lark. It just doesn't pay off.