Showing posts with label bmj. Show all posts
Showing posts with label bmj. Show all posts
Wednesday, 7 December 2016

Progress...

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This is great news from Griffiths University in Australia: the National Centre For Neuroimmunology and Emerging Diseases (NCNED) has been...
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Monday, 26 January 2015

The pantomime of PACE

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More nonsense from the PACE trial/biopsychosocial gang in mid-January. The BMJ and the Lancet and the Telegraph and the Times and the Guard...
Friday, 8 March 2013

A wee girl that breaks my heart, & googling viruses 30 yrs later

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There are so many images in a week that can break your heart, but this wee girl in Pakistan selling flowers has stayed with me . * An...
Friday, 16 November 2012

Doctors & patients & writers ...

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I attended a talk mid-week on doctors who also write , a hop and a skip from me. It was a long talk, almost two hours, and I found it so h...
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Tuesday, 31 January 2012

Post-Alba: 'Toxic Tiredness' (Part Two) - updated

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(*Having re-watched Part Two, I've now added to this post in bold at the end.   And Part One is blogged here . **Also, both parts are...
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Wednesday, 24 August 2011

Storytelling (6)

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Interesting blog post here from BMJ - discussing the way we use metaphors to understand and describe illness. I left a comment and only...
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Sunday, 21 August 2011

Storytelling (5)

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More Wesselymania from a UK press apparently lobotomised when it comes to reporting on ME. Wessely jerks these health editors like puppet...
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Thursday, 21 July 2011

Will adopting the Canadian criteria improve the diagnosis of ME?

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All of us with ME - the neuro-immune illness myalgic encephalomyelitis - want the Canadian Clinical Guidelines to be universally adopted, s...
Thursday, 23 June 2011

BMJ editorial on ME

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Here's a recent BMJ editorial on ME by Fiona Godlee and my response (which has been slightly edited, I stated that Wessely and colleague...
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Thursday, 3 March 2011

Wise words from 1978!

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The BMJ talked more sense on ME thirty years ago . Via Dr Speedy, a report from 1978 in which the author concludes: Further epidemics should...
Wednesday, 30 June 2010

Broken

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A medical student in the BMJ describes the stigma that faces doctors who specialise in psychiatry. They are often viewed as reject doctors...
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Wednesday, 10 March 2010

Return to sender

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The BMJ advertises itself as 'helping doctors make better decisions'. I'm sure it achieves this often, but I fear when it com...
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Saturday, 27 February 2010

Getting very bored with Simon

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I'm so bored blogging about M.E, I would much rather talk about books but I get so fired up when I see the Wessely footprint, the denial...
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Sunday, 21 February 2010

Responses to Santhouse et al.

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Some more excellent responses on the recent BMJ article on ME . (And they accepted my second one, having rejected the first.) My favourite ...
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Tuesday, 16 February 2010

Magic: How to Make an Illness Disappear!

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Am linking to  Professor Malcolm Hooper's complaint to the MRC: Magical Medicine: How to Make a Disease Disappear . And thanks to Nick...
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Saturday, 13 February 2010

More balls, but in this way:

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Balls! The ME Association has helpfully posted the full text (linked to above) of a charming article which appeared in BMJ recently: Defeat...
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Sunday, 22 March 2009

Sheer frustration

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ME Association's response to BMJ on NICE judicial review. BMJ (which advertises its aims as 'providing rigorous accessible informat...
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