David Tuller
Trial By Error: A Bit More on Kaiser Permanente
By David Tuller
By David Tuller, DrPH BerkeleyWellness.com has posted a version of my interview with Dr Steve Olson. He’s the Kaiser Permanente guy who is revamping the health system’s approach to ME/CFS, which is what they are now calling the disease. Dr Olson is planning to attend this week’s research gathering at ...
Trial By Error: The CDC’s Pathetic Response to Reuters
By David Tuller
By David Tuller, DrPH The recent Reuters article about the illness, or cluster of illnesses, variously called CFS, ME, CFS/ME and ME/CFS was problematic for many reasons. One of them was the information included from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. In explaining why the CDC dropped its ...
Trial By Error: My Letter to Kate Kelland
By David Tuller
By David Tuller, DrPH This morning I sent the following e-mail to Kate Kelland, the Reuters reporter who wrote last week's story about horrible patients and horrible me, and about how all this horribleness is affecting Professor Michael Sharpe. I cc'd Professor Racaniello and the two Reuters editors listed on ...
Trial By Error: My Letter to Professor Hotopf About Bristol’s School Absence Study
By David Tuller
By David Tuller, DrPH Matthew Hotopf is a professor of general medicine psychiatry at King's College London. He served as a peer-reviewer for a study by Bristol University investigators that was published in BMJ Open in 2011. The study involved whether school absences could be used to identify cases of ...
Trial By Error: Cochrane’s Report on Courtney’s Complaint
By David Tuller
By David Tuller, DrPH Update: When I posted earlier today, I also meant to update what was happening with the exercise review. On March 8, Cochrane announced, through a notice appended to the review, that the authors would submit another revision in May. (Cochrane has already rejected a previous revision ...