A two part article from Goodelf on MUS

Daisymay said:
https://opposingmega.wordpress.com/2020/08/19/so-what-if-23-get-worse/
Part 2: One Door, One Room, One View.
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Patients can thus be both physically and mentally ‘warehoused’ by their doctors – physically by keeping them at the same point or level of care and limiting the investigations and level of expertise that are available, and mentally in that once a doctor has decided that the patient has a psychological rather than a physical problem they may find it difficult to reverse that decision. Instead of keeping the diagnostic uncertainty door open, it could be argued that the so-called biopsychosocial (BPS) model of MUS shuts it tight and excludes any revision regarding a ‘bio’ component.
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@Hutan might be of interest to those in NZ:

However, the same could not be said of Auckland Liaison Psychiatrist AND General Medicine Physician, Dr Chris Kenedi, who spoke at the Royal Australasian College of Physicians (RACP) Congress meeting in Auckland in 2019. In his presentation on MUS5 – (see from 30.22 to 32.54) – he seemed keen to stress that MUS patients shouldn’t be ‘warehoused’ but instead should be carefully monitored for physical health complaints and should receive more, not less, care from their physicians. Perhaps with his dual role he is an exception, because certainly across the MUS field other proponents seem keen to make out that healthcare costs can be cut by reducing biomedical investigations and care to MUS patients.
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Sly Saint said:
don't know if this has already been posted (found it linked to on DTs latest Trial by error)
DESPICABLE MUS: Document Leads UK Healthcare Commissioners up a Perilous Garden Path.
https://opposingmega.wordpress.com/...care-commissioners-up-a-perilous-garden-path/
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That was some impressive research. Still, pretty basic stuff that should have been done by anyone involved in the process. It's blatantly obvious that the people pushing this are fully aware that they are wholly misrepresenting the situation for their self-interest. There is no possible way everyone involved, especially Wessely, would be unaware of what they are doing, there are limits to unconscious biases.

What's amazing is that this has been going on for many years, with billions spent, yet every time I hear the issue of mental health services in the UK come up, the consensus is that the entire system is in shambles, it's even recognized by people talking about wanting to deliver mental health services for Long Covid. This brain child of BPS is basically brain-dead, has amply proven to be disastrous, yet the escalation of commitment continues. Incredible misuse of public funds, people should be outraged that vast sums are willfully wasted on this corrupt monstrosity.
 
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