Overcoming biases may mean being open to new approaches. Multidisciplinary interventions, such as graduated exercise therapy with the Modified CHOP POTS protocol,
11 incorporating pacing after energy expenditures, cognitive behavioral therapy, and neuromodulation, alongside dietary and nutraceutical interventions, have all shown promise in managing Long COVID and CFS.
12 However, these treatments are often overlooked in favor of more pharmaceutical and organ-focused approaches, leaving patients to rotate from 1 specialist to another while enduring disabling symptoms.
Swing and a miss.
Ah well. Shows how you can't actually beat those biases in most cases, even in those who feel like they are aware of them. Actually, it's clear that they literally can't even tell the difference.
I especially hate this line:
this skepticism erodes trust in the medical system and leads to medical care-related trauma
First of all, denial is not skepticism. It's its own thing. It's the difference between agnosticism (I don't know what this is) and atheism (this doesn't exist). But those two completely understate the consequences. It's not a passive thing, trust is not eroded by some natural phenomenon, rather it's actively destroying their own credibility.
But the trauma completely belittles the consequences. People die, including many who take their own lives in despair. Millions of people have simply continued existing miserable lives where, on their last breath, was simply not worth living. Trauma is the least of all worries here. It's destruction of human lives on an industrial scale. Entirely on purpose, that purpose being a gaslighting ideology built entirely on logical fallacies and fraudulent claims.
Even in professionals who feel like they get it, they almost always make it clear how they aren't even close to getting it. Literally pushing the exact same BS as avowed deniers, bizarrely arguing how this psychobehavioral approach is overlooked, when it's all there is. The only difference is whether it happens with a smile or a frown. Pretty much literally all the difference there is between
and
, for the exact same outcomes.
People truly make up whatever tales about themselves they feel is the best interpretation of their own behavior. Even when they copy exactly the very same behavior they misrepresent, distort and, ultimately, enable just as surely as those who are insulting on purpose.
To be fair, there was never a time when this type of professional didn’t promote themselves as competent well meaning actors in a sea of incompetence (see inexperienced) and corruption (see over medicalisation). It’s just that they’re now much more likely to appropriate patients own language as well as the language of fairness and equality more generally.
Every quack in history has always been absolutely certain of being right. Especially those who were wrong. Because it usually takes misplaced confidence and a complete lack of self-awareness to start doing that doesn't work, so it's natural that the same mechanism keeps applying to make it continue, and look back at disastrous outcomes as if any of it was good.
This is why evidence-based medicine was developed. Only to be immediately corrupted into doing the exact opposite, because they literally can't tell the difference between science and fantasy.
