Paul Garner: on his recovery from long covid
We need to listen to communities of people who have recovered from illness, says Paul Garner I loved my job, had good friends, and felt as high as a […]
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Paul Garner on long haul covid-19—Don’t try to dominate this virus, accommodate it
“Has covid-19 gone?” My first thought every morning for six months. A few weeks ago, I was jubilant. The muscle aches had evaporated, my head was clear. I announced this […]
Paul Garner: Covid-19 at 14 weeks—phantom speed cameras, unknown limits, and harsh penalties
“If my husband had said he was still sick with covid-19 after a month, I’d say he was milking it.” Straight talking from a Liverpudlian woman on one of my […]
Paul Garner: Covid-19 and fatigue—a game of snakes and ladders
It’s over, I thought! It was the beginning of May, after the weirdest seven weeks of illness I had ever had, a roller coaster of exhaustion, pain everywhere, tinnitus, headaches, […]
Paul Garner: For 7 weeks I have been through a roller coaster of ill health, extreme emotions, and utter exhaustion
Paul Garner, professor of infectious diseases at Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, discusses his experience of having covid-19 […]
Paul Wicks: Patients take centre stage at the 4th NHS Expo
This year’s NHS Health and Care Innovation Expo was held at the sympathetically converted former train station Manchester Central and felt more like a festival than a trade show. Volunteers […]
Long covid and self-help pacing groups—getting by with a little help from our friends
Paul Garner and colleagues describe how a self-help pacing group has helped them manage their long covid […]
Liz Wager: Deworming the literature
A recent Cochrane systematic review caught my eye, not so much for its conclusions but for what it shows about the state of the medical literature. According to Paul Garner, […]
Jeffrey Aronson: When I Use a Word . . . The Munchausen family
Eponyms are not infrequently included in the Oxford English Dictionary (OED), and the list of biomedical words first cited from 1977 contains two, Pontiac fever and Polle syndrome (Table 1). […]
Minna Johansson: Caring for patients with long covid—a compassionate tightrope
What do our reactions to long covid reveal about medicine’s uncomfortable relationship with uncertainty? Minna Johansson reflects […]