David Tuller
Trial By Error: After Maeve Boothby O’Neill’s Death, More Concerns About Severe ME Patients at NHS Hospitals
By David Tuller
By David Tuller, DrPH I recently wrote an article for Codastory.com about Maeve Boothby O’Neill, who died from complications of severe ME in October, 2021, after three separate admissions to her local National Health Service hospital in Exeter, England. During her hospital stays, she and her family fought with the ...
Trial By Error: An Upcoming “Biopsychosocial” Long Covid Conference in Finland
By David Tuller
By David Tuller, DrPH What is it with the health care establishments in northern Europe? Why are they so devoted to non-evidence-based approaches to treating serious medical conditions? Why do they trust arguably fraudulent research, like the PACE trial and Professor Esther Crawley’s pediatric Lightning Process study? Why are the ...
Trial By Error: Correctives from Putrino & Iwasaki (and Others) to the Long-Covid-Is-Psychosomatic Claims
By David Tuller
By David Tuller, DrPH When the pandemic began, everyone involved in the ME, CFS, and ME/CFS domain assumed that there would be a wave of post-acute, prolonged complications, since every virus seems to leave in its wake a small but still significant number of people who report a range of ...
Trial By Error: Once More Regarding Inflated FND Rates–and a Reprise of a Letter to a Yale Neurologist
By David Tuller
By David Tuller, DrPH Last July, I sent a letter to Benjamin Tolchin, a neurologist at Yale, about the statement, in a 2021 paper for which he was the lead author, regarding prevalence rates for functional neurological disorder (FND). Last month, I sent it again. I’ve still had no response. ...
Trial By Error: A Response to Call for “A New Paradigm” for Long Covid in Lancet Respiratory Medicine
By David Tuller
By David Tuller, DrPHUpdate, Feb 3rd: After less than 24 hours, our letter was rejected by the journal. Here's the message I received: Dear Dr Tuller, Thank you for your recent submission to The Lancet Respiratory Medicine. We have now had time to consider your manuscript and unfortunately, on this occasion, ...