Daily Mail article: One in 10 NHS trusts have a 'male menopause' policy

[Sly Saint]

One in ten hospital trusts have ‘male menopause’ guidelines while a quarter do not have policies in place for women, research suggests.

The woke protocols have been installed at around 20 trusts, despite the NHS describing the term as ‘unhelpful and misleading’.

Elsewhere, almost a quarter of police forces have policies to address the ‘manopause’ yet more than 40 per cent had nothing for female staff experiencing menopause, according to a Freedom of Information request.

The findings are further evidence of the widespread practice amongst public bodies, as exposed in an audit by the Mail last year which found examples within the Fire Service, Police, Councils and NHS.

Critics said it was wrong to compare the two, with one effecting all women and the other said to affect around two per cent of men.

Dean Burnett, a neuroscientist and honorary research fellow at Cardiff University, said symptoms linked to the manopause, such as brain fog and low mood, were more likely the result of common mental disorders such as anxiety or depression.

He said: ‘We are very keen on medicalising things in the modern world, because we are recognising more and more conditions, disorders or just atypical ways of being, which could be addressed better.

‘Women have the menopause so to say that men have a similar sort of hormone deficiency issue at a similar stage of life, it’s a very logical leap to say “well, that’s the male version” of this well-established phenomenon.

‘But I do think you can go too far with that and attempt to put a label on a problem which may not necessarily be there.’

One in 10 NHS trusts have a 'male menopause' policy

 

[Kitty]

Dean Burnett, a neuroscientist and honorary research fellow at Cardiff University, said symptoms linked to the manopause, such as brain fog and low mood, were more likely the result of common mental disorders such as anxiety or depression.

Even assuming that's true—and he makes it clear enough that it's his opinion, not evidence—they're still disorders.

‘But I do think you can go too far with that and attempt to put a label on a problem which may not necessarily be there.’

Right, so mental disorders aren't a problem that should be medicalised. Got where you're coming from, mate.

Why do people pay actual money for papers that print garbage like this?

 

[rvallee]

Dean Burnett, a neuroscientist and honorary research fellow at Cardiff University, said symptoms linked to the manopause, such as brain fog and low mood, were more likely the result of common mental disorders such as anxiety or depression.

‘But I do think you can go too far with that and attempt to put a label on a problem which may not necessarily be there.’

But. You literally just did that. You literally just labeled them common mental disorders, and anxiety or depression. How do they not see how completely contradictory this is? They have zero self-awareness despite being more than smart enough for it.

He said: ‘We are very keen on medicalising things in the modern world, because we are recognising more and more conditions, disorders or just atypical ways of being, which could be addressed better.

Could be this. Could be that. Let's just assume it's this and that, label them that way and tsk-tsk at people labeling things in a way that is actually consistent with reality.

More like: ‘We are very keen on psychologizing things in the modern world, because we are inventing or falsely claiming to see more and more conditions, disorders or just atypical ways of being, which could be addressed better, because we have literally never succeeded at addressing any of them, having made up most of them anyway as an excuse for our many failures, which magically become successes as long as you don't ever look at the details".

It's still amazing how medicine is completely obsessed with patients' subjective reports being unreliable and will argue that a number of medical conditions have to be fake because they don't have tests for those, but then they'll massively overhype and amplify things they can't test for and either rely on subjective reports, or their own subjective interpretation without any possibility of validation. They don't even realize how absurd this is. Their argument is basically: "I don't want to go out to X, 9 pm is too late for me." But then they go out to Y, at 11 pm. Can't even be honest about what they do or why they do it.

Health care is becoming more and more ridiculous each year. And also better. The cutting edge is atom-sharp, the handle is basically a frayed bit of rotten wood at this point. It's being split apart between a scientific future and atavistic nonsense.

 

[Sean]

The woke protocols​

I guess at least he makes it clear where he is coming from, what is prejudices are. I find the use of 'woke' in a critique a pretty reliable flag that the critique is drivel and political from the ground up.