Trial By Error: Some Things I’ve Read Recently…BBC on Olympic Sprinter with Long COVID; Anil van der Zee on Suicide; Physician vs. Patient Knowledge

By David Tuller, DrPH Olympic Sprinter Bedbound for 22 Hours a Day The BBC has profiled Beth Dobbin, a top-level sprinter who is, per the story’s headline, “now bedbound for 22 hours a day” with a severe case of myalgic encephalomyelitis (ME). In 2021, Dobbin, 32, represented Great Britain at the summer Olympics in Tokyo. […]