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Trial By Error: Updated Medical Textbook Still Promotes Biopsychosocial Ideology

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By David Tuller, DrPH For decades, Kumar & Clark’s Clinical Medicine has been a standard textbook for medical education around the world. Last month, Elsevier pubished the 11th edition. The miniscule section on what it calls “chronic fatigue syndrome/myalgic encephalopathy” is pathetic. This section is in a chapter called “General Hospital Psychiatry,” promotes “psychological symptoms” …

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Trial By Error: Cindy Bateman and OMF Seek to Boost Medical Education About ME/CFS and Related Illnesses

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By David Tuller, DrPH *October is crowdfunding month at UC Berkeley. If you like my work, consider making a tax-deductible donation to Berkeley’s School of Public Health to support the Trial By Error: project: https://crowdfund.berkeley.edu/project/33528 Medical education in the US has not generally included accurate information about ME/CFS. If medical students learned anything at all about …

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