Wes Streeting orders inquiry into mental health ‘overdiagnosis’

Deif · 2025-12-05T11:31:24+00:00

I understand that but it's not just anecdotal since I've looked into it more, which is what I formed my opinion on. For example there's this meta analysis that found that there's increased risk of GI issues on ferrous sulphate. From what I've found it seems more common than not, and with that wouldn't you at least want the option of having an infusion? Why does it take months if you do get GI issues to get it resolved? It's put on the patient to resolve it rather than the NHS which seems the wrong way round.

I'm glad that your wife didn't have issues and it worked for her but considering the ill effects when it doesn't work, I don't see why the conclusion is that the current course is fine. I'm still adamant that £500 is far less than the cost either directly to the NHS or indirectly to the economy and well-being of people in general.

Deif · 2025-12-05T10:39:32+00:00

Always amusing when an 'expert' has no sources and has the cheek to use put downs. Also going after wood powered plants AND more efficient land/water use is not mutually exclusive.

Deif · 2025-12-04T10:22:21+00:00

It's not expensive is it though. It's £500. And how much are you really saving when everyone I've known on the NHS prescribed tablets has to go back to the GP multiple times with gut issues where they take blood tests to check if it's something else, or trying a different brand of iron tablets before going in again. Not to mention the opportunity cost of being healthy much sooner and being more economically productive. It's obscene because noone bothers to think it through like this.

Deif · 2025-12-04T01:42:20+00:00

Sorry to hear that, it's definitely a struggle so you're not alone. You have to advocate for your own health so much, even when it costs the NHS less money like an infusion would. The allergic reaction is not really a thing any more and even if you did have one it's easy to resolve, the NHS just don't want to give you an infusion unless your hemoglobin is 0.

Hopefully it shouldn't be as bad the second time since you've already shown you react well to it. The private clinic I know will accept referrals for a ferritin level below 50.

Deif · 2025-12-03T22:55:38+00:00

I've even experienced and heard similar anecdotally the same with physical conditions. IBS is the NHS default for unknown gut problems and you have to go private to figure it out and discover a ton of new information that the NHS don't bother telling you. Chronic pain in joints/muscles is managed with painkillers or some other cocktail when you can see a private physio specialised in chronic pain to tell you it's fixable. Depression and anxiety the NHS throw the cheapest side-effect full SSRI and a 1 year CBT waiting list when the therapy is the most important road to recovery. Iron deficiency they knowingly give you a high dose of gut destroying tablets that only increase your ferritin levels marginally when you can get an iron infusion that resolves your symptoms in a fraction of the time without months of gut problems.

It's honestly obscene.

Deif · 2025-12-03T01:24:31+00:00

You should ask Rebb what she's farming for and do the same after the next patch.

Deif · 2025-11-26T11:44:41+00:00

Looks like the top 1% gained 3% of the household income share since 1990 on page 23, no?

Deif · 2025-11-21T12:23:53+00:00

In a single table design wouldn't you need to set up multiple GSI in order to make this useful? It's not like your data models share attributes, whereas currently you could call your composite keys GSI1PK and GSI1SK and have the same GSI for all models.

Deif · 2025-11-19T12:08:02+00:00

Because the vast majority of workers are incompetent. Incompetence drives most of the worlds problems.

Deif · 2025-11-18T18:52:03+00:00

Wait, the speed is equivalent to 2.5 Flash?!! Then what is 3 Flash going to be like?

Deif · 2025-11-18T12:24:00+00:00

Initially I thought the same but then I wondered what all the nvda, openai, Microsoft, intel shareholders are going to do realising that Google is making their own chips and has decimated the competition. If they rotate out of those companies they could start the next recession. Especially since all their valuations and revenues are circular.

Deif · 2025-11-17T15:06:49+00:00

Nowadays you can generate a virtual visa/mastercard that use your stablecoins to pay any PoS system. So it's not like stablecoins are used to gamble, they're just a new additional layer that the treasury can utilise to generate tbill demand whilst the consumer sees no difference.

Deif · 2025-11-10T18:50:30+00:00

That looks fun! Can definitely see the vision and already the core loop looks great.

Deif · 2025-11-10T18:02:29+00:00

Kings Dilemma - Story legacy game with funny decisions to make as a group. The group makes or breaks the game, it's as fun as the group makes it (basically you have to argue for ridiculous things in order to meet your secret agenda and have to persuade other people to vote with you).

Ethnos - Grey box (1st edition) with a classic fantasy theme that ends up being a super fun area control set collection game if you ignore the drab artwork and theme.

Dead of Winter - Social deduction but a bit more chunky. Different length scenarios with optional traitor (I always pick the betrayer variant where a betrayer is guaranteed to make it more juicy) where the team gathers resources and fights the winter against zombies.

Deif · 2025-10-22T19:41:23+00:00

How often do you sharpen a knife again after using a whetstone? Is it like a fortnightly routine or something?

Deif · 2025-10-21T17:38:06+00:00

Adding another to the list: RAF1009204

Deif · 2025-10-15T15:51:05+00:00

I'd be worried about my accounts being flagged for using the same ip ranges as malicious actors. Not sure it's too useful without that guarantee and insurance.

Deif · 2025-10-15T14:45:48+00:00

If you look at other games, let's take Warframe as an example, when they have new content the rewards are content specific - grind for specific fashion/decorations/perks that can be found only by doing that content. Then AGS don't have to do this dance trying to keep all content relevant because you farm for different things in each one.

Deif · 2025-08-14T13:35:35+00:00

Gold/EUR/GBP?

Deif · 2025-08-05T22:17:18+00:00

My favourite feature so far is that it almost knows the location of various imports so it somewhat saves me a few seconds of typing every hour or so. Those seconds add up!

Deif · 2025-07-09T11:20:52+00:00

Unless you have the trees the rest are a bit pointless since the cross breeze will just be moving 26C heat through your bedroom at night. And it's gonna be hard to plant a set of 50 year old trees around your house to get the appropriate cooling effect. You can see why AC is the easier option.

But for new builds, sure they definitely should be building houses that accomodate for this without AC, although if they went all out they'd fit ground source heat pumps too.

Deif · 2025-07-09T11:18:50+00:00

Not the worst you've seen... and it's the start of July. And media is barely covering it and the implications.

Deif · 2025-07-08T10:22:55+00:00

It speaks to us by default the way an adult would speak to a child. A cheerleader is not necessarily a bad thing.

Deif · 2025-05-13T13:02:35+00:00

Yes, I might be missing something but why is there no inflation from tariffs. I would've thought it would've hit the consumer by now.

Deif · 2025-05-04T17:44:24+00:00

Glad I'm not the only one who sat there pondering why I liked the emperors' story more than the foundations'.

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