David Tuller
Trial By Error: Sarah Boothby’s Statement to the Inquest
By David Tuller
By David Tuller, DrPH The two weeks of public hearings in the inquest into the death of Maeve Boothby O'Neill ended on Friday. (The coroner, Deborah Archer, plans to issue her findings on the facts this coming Friday.) Last Thursday, both of Maeve's parents testified. Her mom, Sarah Boothby, took ...
Trial By Error: Dr Weir’s Letters on Treatment of Maeve Boothby O’Neill
By David Tuller
By David Tuller, DrPH William Weir is an infectious disease physician in London who has treated many ME/CFS patients. He has been involved in some of the ongoing cases in England in which severely ill teenage girls and young women, and their families, have been in conflict with their local ...
Trial By Error: Guardian Publishes Response to Boothby O’Neill Inquest from Ranking Member of the CBT/GET Ideological Brigades
By David Tuller
By David Tuller, DrPH My heart sinks every time I see another ridiculous article from a member of the CBT/GET ideological brigades. They repeat the same bogus arguments that we’ve heard for years—arguments that have already been refuted time and again. So let’s take a look at the most recent ...
Trial By Error: Maeve Boothby O’Neill Inquest Highlights Major Systemic Failures at UK’s National Health Service and in Medical Education
By David Tuller
By David Tuller, DrPH Heartbreaking. Infuriating. Mind-boggling. Those three adjectives are as good as any to describe the testimony heard during the first week of the two-week inquest into the death of Maeve Boothby O’Neill, 27, being held in Exeter, a university town in southwest England. Deborah Archer, the no-nonsense ...
Trial By Error: “Effort Preference”? WTF?
By David Tuller
By David Tuller, DrPH When I was a young gay man in the 1980s (I’m 67), a common term for sexual orientation was “sexual preference.” This phrase always struck me as weird. Preference? The urges I felt were not a “preference.” Preference clearly implies a choice—as in, I prefer to ...