That would be the social part of psycho-social.
I first learned the term 4 years into it, and it was a real shock of recognition, light bulb turning on moment.
They are told that they are suffering from stress; that they are depressed or anxious. The implication is that their condition is psychosomatic;...
This. At my worst I was never out of touch with reality, by any valid measure. It was often very difficult to process what was going on, and I...
Once upon a time neurology was absolutely sure that the reports from MS patients about monocular diplopia (double images in one eye) were...
Meh. He is still clinging just as tightly onto the whole FND project. I don't see much practical distinction between incongruency and...
Once again, the only explanation that makes sense to me about findings like this is that they are downstream secondary consequences of whatever is...
That is the question that needs answering.
Sadly, I have to agree with @JemPD. The risk is too high at this point. We don't have a solid evidentiary case yet about the causes and...
It would have been obvious decades ago. Even if it was a novel form of MS. Desperation, no matter how justified and compelling, is not a reason...
The health care is likely to break down unless we are able to increase the level of functioning for the growing number of patients with complex,...
Sounds all too familiar.
The problem is not with EBM itself, it is with how it has been perverted.
+1
For successful management patients need to accept and accommodate their disability, focusing on what they can still do instead of lamenting what...
Actually, such considerations involving emotional and spiritual elements in healing have been around for many years. But they have been treated as...
Yeah, I am not convinced either. Of course it is possible, and we should keep an open mind about it, but nothing more at this stage.
It will need more than that. There are some who have behaved so atrociously and disreputably, and are clearly hell bent on continuing to do so,...
Second, make sure you have a very strict and agreed-upon definition of what long COVID constitutes: I am far more concerned about overall...
...inability to form adequate mucosal layers throughout the body... Might be something to this, given frequent reports of dry eyes and mouth, etc.
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