Prof Sir Simon Wessely talks about MUS today on BBC 4

[Countrygirl]

I haven't achieved the state of mind that could cope with listening to this yet. That will be a delight in store for later.


http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b08dnr3g

Th Life Scientific Radio 4 Tuesday 14th November.

Prof Sir Simon Wessely talks about Medically Unexplained Symptoms.

Professor of Psychological Medicine at the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience, part of King's College in London, Simon Wessely has always been fascinated by those puzzling symptoms and syndromes which can't easily be explained. So it was perhaps inevitable that he would find himself at the centre of research trying to explain the distressing and debilitating illness, Chronic Fatigue Syndrome.
Threats and abuse finally led to him leave this particular research field, and he moved instead to military health and another complex illness which appeared after the first Gulf War in the early 90s, Gulf War Syndrome.
Years of detailed epidemiological studies about the health of British troops followed through the King's Centre for Military Health Research and many of the findings had a direct impact on policy within the armed forces.

 

[Countrygirl]

Listening now: he starts speaking about those patients no one likes at 15.30

 

[moosie]

I think that was on 14th Feb . . . but my brain is mush . . .

 

[IThinkImTurningJapanese]

Listening now: he starts speaking about those patients no one likes at 15.30

There are so many other jobs he would probably be qualified for.

It disappeared!? Why wasn't I informed?