Moving from stigmatization toward competent interdisciplinary care of patients with [FND]: focus group interviews, 2019, Klinke et al

Not a recommendation.

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Thank you @Andy - your warnings allow me to ‘step away’ from the anger-inducing articles.....I just hope that you manage to keep your blood pressure down, whilst reading them for us!

 

Really amazing how consistent the solution to the problem is more of the thing that caused the problem, with even more deceit as its main feature.

Bit odd but I think this quote captures the dumpster fire perfectly:

 

someone got hold of a book of medical buzzwords and produced this tripe isn't it the same stuff that led to many people in companies being vastly over promoted until said companies ended up in the hands of the bankruptcy courts . talk the talk and dumb people think you know what your doing . Also their is no evidence of any such thing as functional neurological diseases other than some muppet saying that's the cause of a group of symptoms that present medical knowledge does not understand.

 

It is worse than that. I have been trying to get together articles for a post but have had a crash, but the likes of Stone and others were much less dogmatic in 2008 than in what they write now, so things that were accepted as disease then with complicated tests are now being called FND with less investigation.

There is also a strange dichotomy. In the same way as the BPSers are making sweeping statements about IBS while bowel specialists are ignoring them and getting on with their work, there are neurologists talking about they way some complicated disorders are being underdiagnosed because too many neurologists can't diagnose them unless they have a classic presentation.