Dr Jonathan Kerr

I'd like to do that. Can you recommend one?

One that's as basic as possible.

It'll likely not manage it due to cognitive challenges, but i'd like to understand a bit more of this so i'd like to try.

 

Sorry, I have not read one myself for a couple of decades.

 

thanks, no problem perhaps you could tell me what criteria i might apply when choosing one - ie how does one tell if it's "decent" ?

 

A tough question. I suspect the best guides would be that it was produced in the USA and that it was published sometime between 1980 and 2000. Medical literature has been dumbed down since then.

I have to say that I fear that reading epidemiology textbooks may be one of the more boring activities in life. And it may be hard to find the basic principles amongst a lot of statistics and such stuff.

 

Ok @Jonathan Edwards thank you

 

So interesting. I did a basic course for a few years on Human Anatomy and Physiology well over 20 years ago and have forgotten a lot of what I learned about all the systems in the body.

I was just thinking about which system of the body you would put the microbiome in. I thought the integumentary system because it is a protective covering of the body but really it would be endocrine because of it's secretive properties.

In the first 10 months of severe ME one of my 2 GPs that I saw alternatively was going to refer me to endocrinology. I should have pushed for this at time but I was so sick and could barely think. I wonder if anything could have shown up - missed opportunity.

 

Is the microbiome part of the body? I thought it was a range of symbiotic relationships.

 

I don't know @Skycloud I was just trying to think which specialty/system it would fit into.

 

@Trish I realise I made a poor post - I do know that the microbiota aren't 'in' the body, not being inside the cells but coating the surfaces of areas as you mention. I think perhaps I thought my question was rhetorical (?) but that's not clear even to me! I was posting whn my brain was overtired which it is too often. Probably a sign I need to take a forum break. Thanks anyway!

 

Nah - just down to me

 

Moved post

Am involved in exploring new ME Service opportunities.
Am trying to track down Dr Jonathan Kerr ATM?
I last had email contact March 2022 but today email sent was returned by Kings Lynn Hospital.
It says he is no longer there. Does anyone know his whereabouts?

 

Check of the Medical Register: https://www.gmc-uk.org/doctors?text=Jonathan Kerr&isSpecialist=true = not good news.

 

Very sad. I had conversations with him when organising for him to speak at Irish ME/CFS Association talks in Dublin and Waterford in 2006 for ME/CFS awareness week

 

https://www.gmc-uk.org/doctors/3257111

Registration and licensing history
(since 20 October 2005)Registration and licensing history
From
To
Status
30 Jun 2022
Not Registered - Deceased
08 May 2018 30 Jun 2022 Registered with a licence to practise
08 May 2013 08 May 2018 Not Registered - Administrative Reason
05 Mar 2012 08 May 2013 Registered with a licence to practise
22 Mar 2011 05 Mar 2012 Not Registered - Having relinquished registration
16 Nov 2009 22 Mar 2011 Registered with a licence to practise
20 Oct 2005 16 Nov 2009 Registered

I wonder whether he had any problems with his licence?? I know he worked in Colombia for a while so perhaps he simply didn't need to be registered in the UK. If it was a problem with his licence, I wonder whether somebody from the biopsychosocial school of thought might have complained about him/something he said?? (pure speculation)