Michael Sharpe skewered by @JohntheJack on Twitter

This seems like a serious issue here. No one can recall what Simon's role was? Amazing!

 

Precisely. I do think it's poor for a doctor of his status, standing, influence & power over whether his patients receive such benefits, to not be aware that PIP has nothing whatsoever to do with whether someone is fit for work or not. Its about the extra financial burden of being ill/disabled & associated costs - due to care/mobility needs, in order to survive. You can be, for example, a quadraplegic (& therefore eligible for enhanced rate PIP in both elements), & yet not actually be in any way ill so with adjustments capable of some kinds of employment. Whereas you can be able to look after yourself, just about, & yet too ill to do anything else & therefore ineligible for PIP but unable to work.
It's not rocket science and the people with influence over whether people are able to access the support they need, jolly well ought to know the facts about all the different benefits relevant to their patients. That includes all doctors but ESPECIALLY those who believe in a BPS approach!

 

https://twitter.com/user/status/1008726938364588032

 

interesting wording by SW -- he's "pretty sure", then "checked back with MS" who "thinks"...

 

https://twitter.com/user/status/1008745851236339714

The poor chap must be having comprehension troubles, @Robert 1973 has asked if he was a centre leader and he's angrily denying being an author.

 

Wessely evades the point again.

https://twitter.com/user/status/1008745851236339714


It feels like he's used to getting away with these tricks when a) he's speaking to people who don't really care about the details and just trust him and b) there's no written record of exactly what was said.

 

This is going to cost me fortune in pizza delivery.

 

Wessely has got Michael Sharpe to blame for all this trouble, he did have to insist everyone read the paper...

 

hope someone is saving all these tweets

 

Yes, does the forum software save them? I might well want to go back to them in due course.

 

If they are deleted on Twitter (by the Tweeter) they will disappear from here as they are only embedded. It would be wise to save screenshots of the ones you feel are most important.

[Edit: would anyone like to take responsibility for saving screenshots of important Twitter threads and uploading them to S4ME – maybe as PDFs?]

 

https://twitter.com/user/status/1008756408328839168

 

Michael Sharpe has now blocked me on twitter.

 

https://twitter.com/user/status/1008756408328839168

Well, that's hardly the basis of a sensible dialogue on Michael 's part!

 

The great irony in all this is that it's the PACE authors themselves - Michael Sharpe included - who give the appearance of not having read the Lancet paper. People who read their own papers tend to notice screaming errors such as 'improvement' thresholds that fall below the trial entry thresholds.

 

Oh dear. We need some superhuman member to log all these on to permanent media. I am hopeless at this. (OK I am lazy, but I have come to realise I cannot do anything about that.) Lots of gems here would be useful for my little notebook but I am distracted by having to sell my mother's flat and needing to persuade British Gas that their bill for £579 is for a period when she had long since left the premises, not to mention the electricity bill.... (Bloody excuses...)

OK, I am too old for this computer stuff. (Another excuse.)

Maybe we should keep pasting in the tweet material into the actual posts.

 

I’ll get started with tweets on this thread tonight. Will keep folk updated on progress

 

Perhaps we could set up a fundraising campaign for paying a S4ME trainee?

Edited: a fundraising campaign for @Keela Too