Re: Dr. Carruthers at the Nice Inquiry.pdf
On Mar 24, 11:45 am, Spencer Spindrift
wrote:
> .pdf to d/l from here:http://www.angliameaction.org.uk/NICEJRdocs/Bruce_Carruthers_WS.pdf
>
> Says the NICE guidelines are not fit for purpose.
> From MRActionUK
> --
> Spencer Spindrift
> "If you have not by nature a critical mind
> your staying here is useless."
> G.I. Gurdjieff
In his witness statement provided for Douglas Fraser and Kevin Short
for the UK High Court Judicial Review of the NICE 'CFS/ME' Guideline
(CG53) Dr Bruce Carruthers, lead author of the International
('Canadian') ME Diagnostic & Treatment Protocols thoroughly dissects,
assesses and then condemns the Guideline. In conclusion he
unequivocally states the following:
"The NICE document does not aid the clinician by offering guidance
about the defining symptomatology of ME/CFS as an aid to diagnosis and
treatment: all it does is to offer a cook-book diagnostic process that
must be followed, and then it recommends two non-specific behavioural
approaches that are not treatment-based and which are non-specific to
the disorder under review.
Overall, the process and the resulting Guideline are, in my opinion,
detrimental to both patients' best interests and to best clinical
practice.
The present Guideline cannot by any standards be considered as
providing "best practice advice on the care of people with CFS/ME" nor
is it "based on the best available evidence" as it claims. In my
opinion it should be withdrawn."
Such outright international condemnation from someone of Dr
Carruthers' professional standing and experience ought to ring alarm
bells in any right-minded person. Dr Carruthers' full witness
statement for Fraser & Short is now published with his permission.
...so send me some medicinal marijuana.
date: Tue, 24 Mar 2009 18:57:15 -0700 (PDT)
author: Spencer Primate
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