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UK focused article on the biopsychosocial model of disability.

A lot of it focuses on ME/CFS, controversies but also tragedies such as people dying from the illness
https://www.scottishlegal.com/articles/david-j-black-economic-fallacies-and-public-health-realities

Includes mentions of Simon Wessely & #PACEgate

#MEcfs #CFS #PwME @mecfs
#MyalgicEncephalomyelitis #ChronicFatigueSyndrome @disability
@disabilityjustice
David J Black: Economic fallacies and public health realities
27 Nov 2024
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In part two of his series on dysfunction in our health system, David J Black reminds us that the cost of bad medicine is people’s lives. Read part one here.

It is one of those facts which cries out to be universally acknowledged: when it came to understanding the nature of such illnesses as ME/CFS, Lord Freud, despite being Sigmund’s great grandson, was almost wantonly ignorant, yet he was the ‘expert’ to whom the government had turned for advice. He had once wittered: “Our approach is – and this is rather a mouthful – akin to the biopsychosocial model.” This speculative doctrine would later resurface in Sir Mansel Aylward and Gordon Waddell’s 2009 manual Models of Sickness and Disability. Aylward, medical director and head scientific adviser to the DWP, and a promoter of the Woodstock conference, would become director of the UnumProvident Centre for Psychosocial Research at Cardiff University. The phrase “conflict of interest” should not be overlooked. The stark conclusion of Aylward/Waddell manual was that
Opinion VS Fact, is still the governing factor when it come to choosing 'experts' to head Medical Facilities. [The GBD was very convenient for governments of either persuasion, to ignore best practice, and expose those - already made vulnerable by 20+ years of neglect - to a whole new horror.]
So, we have Freud to thank, for hypochondria replacing hysteria as a 'diagnosis' to cover the incurious ignorance of the 'male' specialists? @mecfs @disability @disabilityjustice