Psychotherapeutic Advice? Think Twice Guest Post by Stephanie Foster ( @bitesizetherapy.bsky.socialwww.psychiatrymargins.com/p/psychother...
Guest Post by Stephanie Foster
14 new shows a year about medical doctors. Zero shows ever about medical statisticians. WTF!?
same goes for writing, and this very thought process is what we eliminate when we delegate writing to genAI
New paper!📄 We analysed >350 million patient encounters in Norwegian primary care and found that 1/9 visits concern mental health! This is on par with cardiovascular (12.1%) and respiratory (11.0%) complaints, and only outnumbered by musculoskeletal complaints (17.7%)🧵 www.nature.com/articles/s44...
New publication format for #OpenScience: "Post-Registration" You do the work to the best of your ability, you report it honestly, and you respond in good faith to your reviewers and critics when they take the time to comment. This could really work!!
Me: Always question authority. Daughter: Why? Me: Atta girl.
Gelman's summary of the recent NHB retraction if anyone would like to find all the pieces in one place (with a Gelman touch).
Self - care is a euphemism for systematically mischaracterising the problem and blaming the lack of resilience of the people who are struggling. The onus on the individual to self -manage their health needs is a theme of systemic mismanagement of funds by the NHS and successive governments.
Labour quietly discussing plans to replace YOUR NHS GP appointments with ‘self-care’ www.thecanary.co/uk/analysis/...
At Labour conference, there was a session calling for 'self care' to save 25m NHS GP appointments - while starving it of funds
In my view, study design (along with theory) is *the* ultimate preregistration. It always tells the story as it is. We just need some counterfactual thinking. Why is the study designed this way? Is this an appropriate design if this is the desired inference? Is this a good test of the theory?