NIH will be hearing from Edward Shorter, who says IOM report reinforces false illness beliefs tinyurl.com/hgrzvvf
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1988 Holmes CFS definition - criteria: "conditions which must be excluded": "psychiatric disease"
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Shorter must be incompetent - no history skills if he doesn't know CFS criteria has exclusion for psychiatric disease.
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He's a crummy historian but he says what the insurance companies, NHS, many others want to hear.
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NIH P2P 2015 report advising the retirement of Oxford criteria & downgrading BPS model a place in history.
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Where is the evidence that patients suffer from false illness beliefs? It doesn't exist! This idea is pure conjecture.
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The false illness belief is that doctors want to help study and solve them
Shorter will probably manage to come across as out of touch and uninformed, which may very well work to our favor.
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