Post Tagged with: "ME/CFS"

The long march by patients to prove that the official treatment for ME/CFS was wrong and damaging. [Repost]

3 by / on 23 Dec 2020, / in evidence based medicine

By Jerome Burne  A long-running […]

The claim that the cure for the crippling fatigue of ME/CFS was to change your mind always seemed bizarre. Now it really is on the way out…

14 by / on 22 Apr 2019, / in evidence based medicine

By Jerome Burne In September 2016 […]

The serious trust deficiency afflicting medical advice and what to do about it

27 by / on 8 Oct 2016, / in evidence based medicine

Trust me I’m a doctor has become a knowing, cynical catch-phrase but the underlying truth is that we do need to trust our doctors, not only because trusted doctors exert a beneficial healing effect but also because we are entrusting them with something precious – our health.

Independent investigation reveals NICE approved treatment only a fraction as effective as experts claim it is.

46 by / on 26 Sep 2016, / in evidence based medicine

Would any doctor continue to prescribe a drug which they had been told would benefit 20 per cent of patients with a specific illness, once the truth was revealed to be around 7 per cent, only one percent better than no treatment at all? You’d have to hope not and that concerned and angry doctors would then shout loudly that they had been lied to and that patients had endured years of pointless treatment.

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