JoanDublin
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If anyone is on twitter could you please RT this please? The more public this is, the more pressure the BMJ will feel the need to respond to David
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If anyone is on twitter could you please RT this please? The more public this is, the more pressure the BMJ will feel the need to respond to David
To be honest, noise needs to be made frm outside UK about this
I agree the blog is excellent- the challenge is to disseminate reality to general public. Almost everyone " knows of" someone with ME, yet too few appreciate the implications of the condition. We are too good at being our own audience .I'm sure that would be useful. I do think Joan's example of the use of Social Media holds this sort of behaviour to account within our own borders however. It's necessary to not feel this thing is too huge, or they too powerful. This is an excellent blog and asks very serious questions of Crawley and of the BMJ. We need to get behind it...
should these two threads be merged?See original thread here: http://forums.phoenixrising.me/inde...bout-crawley-school-absence-stud.53544/page-4
PS: How amazing is it that someone noticed Crawley was using the same REC number multiple times, and that this one was inappropriate? That is a level of attention to detail that blows my mind. This person deserves some sort of crown.
I think that even if they were deemed 'service evaluation studies' re-using the same REC number over several years for at least 9(?) other papers makes a bit of a mockery of the whole REC system.Crawley was using the same REC number multiple times, and that this one was inaapropriate
Especially where that bureaucratic vulnerability is deliberately exploited by people who see it as a way to subvert the system to their own ends.I think that even if they were deemed 'service evaluation studies' re-using the same REC number over several years for at least 9(?) other papers makes a bit of a mockery of the whole REC system.
Somewhere along the line I imagine there was a similar issue with building regs (ie see Grenfell tower disaster) which meant 'automatic rubber stamping' and see where that ended up.........
Families of the remaining children were sent a letter from the school that invited them to meet with a paediatrician from the Bath specialist CFS/ME team (EMC) and a member of school staff to discuss why their child was missing school.
David Marks • 3 hours ago
David Tuller's account, based on an impeccable source, shows how the naked ambition of an investigator is permitted to tread roughshod over the rights of patients and accepted ethics procedures, aided and abetted by what one likes to imagine is a reputable medical journal. Everybody covering one another's backs, never admitting error, anything unseemly brushed under the carpet. Such complacency and arrogance can only lead to the kind of disaster for patients that clinical governance is designed to prevent. Does anybody in authority care? It would appear not.