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Discussion in 'USA clinics and doctors' started by Sly Saint, Nov 24, 2017.

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  1. Forbin

    Forbin Senior Member (Voting Rights)

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    David Tuller: Trial By Error: Mayo Still Champions GET

    Perhaps you're thinking of Bing Crosby as kindly old Dr. Cook in the 1971 telefilm "Dr. Cook's Garden." Of course, it turns out that kindly old Dr. Cook is surreptitiously euthanizing all the "bad" people in town, "weeding his garden" as it were.

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    To be fair, the phrase, "The diagnosis involves several tests to identify the underlying cause" could be a reference to CFS being a diagnosis of exclusion. That is, "the diagnosis involves several tests to identify the underlying cause," and, when that comes a cropper, you get diagnosed with CFS.
     
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  2. Barry

    Barry Senior Member (Voting Rights)

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    Yeeeeesss ... but it sort of omits to then say that in the case of CFS the search for an underlying cause will then prove fruitless at this time.
     
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    Trial By Error: More Mayo, Please

    This sort of willful ignorance on the part of leading medical institutions like Mayo, while not uncommon when it comes to the illness currently called ME/CFS by federal agencies, is nonetheless dismaying.
     
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  4. Sly Saint

    Sly Saint Senior Member (Voting Rights)

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    Sly Saint, Aug 20, 2018
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  5. dave30th

    dave30th Senior Member (Voting Rights)

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    Wow, I don't think I could take that much happiness and joy!
     
    dave30th, Aug 20, 2018
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  6. Sean

    Sean Moderator Staff Member

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    *sigh*

    Don't you just love their certainty. : unamused:
     
    Sean, Aug 20, 2018
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  7. arewenearlythereyet

    arewenearlythereyet Senior Member (Voting Rights)

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    So annoying ...even if you put aside the garbage content ....the tone is so patronising.
     
    arewenearlythereyet, Aug 20, 2018
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  8. Jonathan Edwards

    Jonathan Edwards Senior Member (Voting Rights)

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    ...is nonetheless dismaying.


    I didn't know David did bad jokes as well.

    Does that make Knoop 'Hollandaise' and Monaghan 'HP sauce'.
     
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  9. Trish

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    Blimey, Mayo really have turned into quack central:

    The blurb about the handbook includes:
    Where's that tripe picture when we need it.
     
    Trish, Aug 20, 2018
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  10. Snowdrop

    Snowdrop Senior Member (Voting Rights)

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    I'd wager, despite the lofty reputation of the Mayo (well deserved in some respects) this is not the first time they've embraced woo. Fads come and go. This one I think started with Jon Kabat Zinn and his work studying Matthieu Richard.

    Their hearts are in the right place but the work that all this is built on is not substantial. It takes a complex social problem and distills it down into a simple formula that is solely the responsibility of the individual.

    Mayo has drunk deeply of this particular kool-aid. But I think it really is a passing fancy. I just don't know for how long (or if we can hurry it's demise).

    It seems to be a stellar example of how even as science progresses the seductiveness of woo has a siren cry that even those who should know better can't resist. Maybe it's also an example of how desperate ill people can be forgiven for thinking some snake oil medicine might just work for what ails them, after all the Mayo can cure us of malign vapours that overcome us.
     
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  11. MeSci

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    I wonder what they consider "frequently talking about symptoms”? Isn't that what a patient is supposed to talk about with a health professional?
     
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  12. arewenearlythereyet

    arewenearlythereyet Senior Member (Voting Rights)

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    87F9E9A3-8C8E-454D-8454-0E1489B5536C.jpeg
     
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  13. Barry

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    :rolleyes::rolleyes::rolleyes::rolleyes::rolleyes::rolleyes: ... :)

    Edit: Or Edwards 'King'?
     
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  14. Tom Kindlon

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  15. Webdog

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    You find this positive psychology nonsense all over Kaiser Permanente as well. That maintaining a certain mindset has measurable effects on physical health.

    It's probably just a matter of time before Kaiser Permanente publishes a handbook.

    Optimism:
    https://thrive.kaiserpermanente.org...ll/become-an-optimist-and-improve-your-health

    Forgiveness:
    https://share.kaiserpermanente.org/article/health-benefits-forgiveness/

    Gratitude:
    https://wa-health.kaiserpermanente.org/gratitude-benefits/

    As James Coyne insightfully points out in a blog post about gratitude, these religious concepts are disguised patient-shaming:
    https://www.coyneoftherealm.com/blo...ssing-gratitude-improves-your-physical-health
     
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  16. arewenearlythereyet

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    Wow ....gratitude and forgiveness....it’s almost like we are regressing to the mediaeval where psychiatry is a new form of oppressive religion to keep the peasants in line...perhaps the next stage is to burn non-compliant patients at the stake for being heretics.
     
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  17. Sean

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    They can shove their demand for bogus acts of gratitude and forgiveness where the sun never shines.

    I can't tell you how much I loathe the positive psych movement, in all its epistemologically and morally bankrupt forms. Always have, since long before I got ME. They are the worst of the lot.

    Always try to make the best of your situation? Sure, perfectly good generic life advice to give to your child. But any further than that is sinking quickly into sophistry, self-delusion, and shamelessly preying upon the desperate.
     
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    If you didn't talk about it and focused on other things, you would be accused of,"Persuasive Refusal Syndrome"....really, the patient is damned if they do and damned if they don't.
     
    Suffolkres, Aug 21, 2018
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    We're already "burnt", although metaphorically. And I agree - exactly this is psychiatry's job in my view.
     
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  20. Tom Kindlon

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