BBC Look North Evening Show. Dr Alexis Gilbert who has #LongCovid and has also been diagnosed with #MECFS and interview with Dr @BinitaKane
Adam’s Broken Battery YouTube Channel here as well as his TV and Radio Clips library here
Released in Germany and France on 25th February 2025 on Arte TV. We are awaiting details of more international releases.
Read More “Movie – Chronically Ill, Chronically Ignored”‘Reflect, Collaborate and Listen’ looks at why doctors don’t listen and the urgent need to rebalance the power dynamic in the patient – doctor relationship.
✨My essay in @TheLancet this week has made the front page!✨ (I didn’t know about this 🤗)
— Dr Rageshri Dhairyawan (@crageshri) February 14, 2025
‘Reflect, Collaborate and Listen’ looks at why doctors don’t listen and the urgent need to rebalance the power dynamic in the patient – doctor relationship.https://t.co/TusGTRBa8f pic.twitter.com/BmUVuYccmw
See the full article here in the Lancet – It is free to download (after registration, which is very straightforward).
Dr Rageshri Dhairyawan writes “Reflect, Collaborate and Listen” which examines why doctors don’t listen, and the urgent need to rebalance the power dynamic in the patient – doctor relationship.”
See the full article here in the Lancet – It is free to download (after registration, which is quite easy).
The abstract continues: “Anxieties about malingering or feigned illness are at least a thousand years old in the West”, argued public health ethicist Daniel S Goldberg in a paper on the history of “malingerers”. He gives several examples including Arnau de Vilanova who in the 13th century was so worried that patients were fooling him, by passing off other people’s urine samples as their own, that he wrote 19 pieces of advice for other physicians to spot the fraudulent. In this way, Goldberg shows how physicians have doubted the testimonies of patients for a very long time.
Excerpts from this incredibly accurate and revealing article by George Monbiot, originally published 12 March 2024
You don’t want to get better’: the outdated treatment of ME/CFS patients is a national scandal
“It’s the greatest medical scandal of the 21st century. For decades, patients with ME/CFS (myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome) have been told they can make themselves better by changing their attitudes. This devastating condition, which afflicts about 250,000 people in the UK, was psychologised by many doctors and scientists, adding to the burden of a terrible physiological illness”
“Long after this approach was debunked in scientific literature, clinicians who championed it have refused to let go. They continue to influence healthcare systems, governments and health insurers. And patients still suffer as a result.”
“ME/CFS saps sufferers of energy and basic physical and cognitive functions, confining many to their homes or even their beds, often shutting down their working lives, social lives and family lives. The extreme seriousness of this condition, and the fact that there is neither a diagnostic test nor a validated treatment, places a special duty of rigour on doctors and researchers. But patient care has been compromised, and useful research inhibited, by the lingering conviction of many practitioners that ME/CFS is “psychosocial”: driven by patients’ beliefs and behaviour.”
