Professor Sir Simon Wessely to be made Regius Professor

[Sean]

...or published before there was widespread internet access for the lowly patients.

Well, clearly time this internet thing was banned then. Can only come to no good, giving the peasants ideas above their station by letting them talk freely to each other about their lot in life, and why it might be that way, and how to improve it.

 

[worldbackwards]

http://forums.phoenixrising.me/index.php?threads/simon-wessely-quotes.21025/

Quite pleased with this:

One last one, one for the future I think:

What matters is that the research we do is good quality. That's what you stand or fall by.

Oh yes.

 

[SilverbladeTE]

Nobody is honoring him. He was made a Sir by the Queen herself, so was Jimmy Savile who is a nasty pedophile, thus making the term mean nothing. I have no slavish impulse to worship royalty. Sir Wessely. Sir Weasel. Sir lying arse. Whatever. No love here. I prescribe to Silverblade TE's voodoo doll comment.

please feel free to add some extra hot chili sauce to the sandpaper, Kina!

 

[TiredSam]

Nobody is honoring him. He was made a Sir by the Queen herself, so was Jimmy Savile who is a nasty pedophile, thus making the term mean nothing. I have no slavish impulse to worship royalty. Sir Wessely. Sir Weasel. Sir lying arse. Whatever. No love here. I prescribe to Silverblade TE's voodoo doll comment.

And I've been watching my language to make sure I don't get into trouble with the moderators

 

[Undisclosed]

And I've been watching my language to make sure I don't get into trouble with the moderators

There are very few naughty words I would remove, please don't start testing which they are.

 

[Snow Leopard]

You've got to admit that if you slap "Darth" on the front of "Regius" it makes a great Star Wars name.

Not that I'm suggesting that anyone should do that...

"Noooooooooooo!" Darth Regius Simon Wessley mutters as he realises the PACE trial has been discredited.

 

[AndyPR]

Well, hopefully if we strike him down, he won't become more powerful than we can possibly imagine - cos that would suck!

 

[worldbackwards]

If Kina is out of control, who will moderate her? Can she be moderated?

I'm scared.

 

[Undisclosed]

If Kina is out of control, who will moderate her? Can she be moderated?

I'm scared.

I must offer my heartfelt apologies for referring to the most honourable arse sir Simon arse wessely as an arse. I am totally out of control for calling an arse an arse. Who will moderate me? Report me to Sushi and she will surely not reprimand me for calling an arse an arse. Moderate me -- I beg you, report me for calling
Wessely arse an arse.

 

[Sushi]

Who will moderate me? Report me to Sushi and she will surely not reprimand me for calling an arse an arse.

Simon Wesseley is an arse! Now there is a real moderation problem!

 

[TiredSam]

'Ere, you two, watch it!

 

[Undisclosed]

Simon Wesseley is an arse! Now there is a real moderation problem!

Well. Then it is agreed, Wessely is an arse. Nothing to see here, move along. Wait! What!

 

[Undisclosed]

I am so very sorry. Being an American website, the proper term would be ass not arse. So I amend my post to:

Nobody is honoring him. He was made a Sir by the Queen herself, so was Jimmy Savile who is a nasty pedophile, thus making the term mean nothing. I have no slavish impulse to worship royalty. Sir Wessely. Sir Weasel. Sir lying ass. Whatever. No love here. I prescribe to Silverblade TE's voodoo doll comment.

And, yes a little hot sauce wouldn't hurt. Oh yes it would.

 

[SilverbladeTE]

There are very few naughty words I would remove, please don't start testing which they are.

naughty words like, oh...
psych
Biosocial
PACE
?

"Professor Regius Sir Simon Wessely" ?

Should be:

His Grace, Sir Simon Wessely, Asinus Masturbari Caput Magnum Sercore, Duke of Balderdash, Lord of Twatgoblins, Master of Flexible Logic and Dementors.
Servant of Satan, Cthulhu, Voldemort and other Infernal Beings!

Tremble at his name, ye worms!​

 

[PhoenixDown]

Speaking of Simon Wessely and the biopsychosocial model, here's an interesting article I came across.

Chronic fatigue syndrome: is the biopsychosocial model responsible for patient dissatisfaction and harm?
http://bjgp.org/content/66/649/437.full

In 1977 George Engel wrote about the need for an ‘integrated approach’ in medicine that moved the focus beyond biological mechanisms of disease to include all pertinent aspects of illness presentation, setting out a ‘biopsychosocial model’.1 Around the same time, McEvedy and Beard asserted that the disease ‘benign myalgic encephalomyelitis’, described by Ramsay at the Royal Free Hospital, London, was nothing more than a case of ‘mass hysteria’.2 In the 1980s, doctors combined theories of neurasthenia, hysteria, and somatoform illness, to reconstitute ME as ‘chronic fatigue syndrome’. Psychiatrists argued that CFS was best understood using a biopsychosocial (BPS) framework, being perhaps triggered by viral illness (biology), but maintained by certain personality traits (psychology) and social conditions (sociology).3 Although the BPS model holds much utility in understanding ‘illness’ in a wider context, many sufferers of CFS reject the notion that their illness is psychologically or socially derived. Significant numbers of patients report difficult interactions with doctors that leave them feeling dissatisfied, disbelieved, and distressed. In this article, we question whether or not the BPS model generates ‘harms’ for CFS patients, and we ask if other, alternative approaches might be more preferable to both patients and GPs.

THE POTENTIAL FOR IATROGENESIS
GPs are increasingly encouraged to apply biopsychosocial principles in the clinical assessment of patients with medically unexplained symptoms, particularly CFS.3,4 There is a general argument put forward in the BPS literature that patients with CFS have higher rates of depression and anxiety, are combative, and seek unnecessary investigations in an effort to maintain sick role status and avail of social benefits.3 GPs are encouraged …

Would be grateful to anyone who has access to the full paper.

 

[taniaaust1]

CFS have higher rates of depression and anxiety, are combative, and seek unnecessary investigations in an effort to maintain sick role status and avail of social benefits.3 GPs are encouraged ….

Im not sure how they can justify that we seek unnecessary investigations when its a proven fact that a large percent who have ME/CFS turn out to have been wrongly diagnosed. If anything that probably points to that we dont get enough investigations.

but then these psychs often just dont use logic do they.

 

[CFS_for_19_years]

I must offer my heartfelt apologies for referring to the most honourable arse sir Simon arse wessely as an arse. I am totally out of control for calling an arse an arse. Who will moderate me? Report me to Sushi and she will surely not reprimand me for calling an arse an arse. Moderate me -- I beg you, report me for calling
Wessely arse an arse.

Simon Wesseley is an arse! Now there is a real moderation problem!

When all else fails, insert a photo representing our newest moderation team.

 

[taniaaust1]

I must offer my heartfelt apologies for referring to the most honourable arse sir Simon arse wessely as an arse. I am totally out of control for calling an arse an arse. Who will moderate me? Report me to Sushi and she will surely not reprimand me for calling an arse an arse. Moderate me -- I beg you, report me for calling
Wessely arse an arse.

be careful, he may go whining to the media that you are doing that.

 

[CFS_for_19_years]

Speaking of Simon Wessely and the biopsychosocial model, here's an interesting article I came across.

Chronic fatigue syndrome: is the biopsychosocial model responsible for patient dissatisfaction and harm?
http://bjgp.org/content/66/649/437.full

Would be grateful to anyone who has access to the full paper.

Perhaps you can get it from @Keith Geraghty, one of the authors.

 

[taniaaust1]

I wonder if this award or whatever it is is to distract the Drs and general public that this man actually was part of influencing the world and delaying research into the people suffering from the chronic disease with the lowest QOL score on the planet.

that's what I'd been wondering too.