Another BMJ rapid response
The BMJ (British Medical Journal) recently commissioned and published a highly dubious opinion piece by Alastair Miller and coauthors arguing that patients w...
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Psychiatry and its poorly-evidenced theories: ‘Chemical imbalances’ in depression, and ‘dysfunctional illness beliefs’ in ME/CFS
It occured to me recently that there are quite a number of similarities between the chemical imbalance theory of depression and the traditional (bio)psychoso...
Rapid response to the BMJ ‘living systematic review’ of long COVID interventions
The BMJ (British Medical Journal) recently published a ‘living’ systematic review of interventions for long COVID (post-COVID condition) by Zeraatkhar and co...
Text-message lobbying of senior NICE staff by individuals at NHS England and the Royal College of Psychiatrists in days before ME/CFS guideline pause
On August 4 2021, an embargoed copy of the final NICE guideline for ME/CFS — already severely delayed — was distributed to registered stakeholders “for a fin...
BACME, NHS ME/CFS clinics shift from deconditioning to dysregulation model of ME/CFS in anticipation of updated NICE guideline
The British Association for Clinicians in ME/CFS (BACME) describes itself as ‘a multidisciplinary organisation for UK professionals who are involved in the d...
Behind the scenes at NICE: The justification for further delay to the ME/CFS guideline publication date
On March 29, the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) announced that the expected publication date for the revised guideline for ME/CFS h...
Letter to The Guardian, 28 April 2021 (Published)
In response to this Opinion piece in the The Guardian, I wrote the following response, which I’m pleased to say was published on 29 April:
Letter to The Guardian, 12 March 2021
In response to this article in the The Guardian, I wrote the following unpublished response:
Letter to The Times, 24 June 2020
In response to a collection of articles in The Times concerning ME/CFS and the announcement of the DecodeME study, I wrote the following letter, which this t...
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Health history
I became ill in spring 2012 with what was likely a nondescript viral illness, during a period of heightened stress. I was prescribed the antibiotic phenoxyme...