"From 25% group newsletter: Nigel Speight AYME patron's resignation letter
To all who may not know, in the UK as well as the US there has been a long battle between people who believe ME-CFS to be a psychiatric or behavorial disorder, commonly known as the 'Wessely School' or psychiatric lobby, and those who believe it to be an organic biomedical disorder.
This battle has actually extended to UK patient charities, with two charities in particular, AfME and AYME, being widely considered to be colluding with the 'psychiatric lobby' in an attempt to portray ME-CFS as a behavorial disorder to the detriment of thier members.
So it is good news that Dr. Nigel Speight, a patron of AYME, has publicly resigned as their Patron citing exactly this as his reason in the letter below.
I believe he has now become a Medical Advisor to the 25% M.E. Group, if you want to send an email of thanks here is the email addy-
enquiry@25megroup.org
Thank you, Dr. Speight. "
2 comments:
It is my understanding that AfME tried to steamroller the existing useless NICE guidelines for M.E. through for Scotland, but that tiny charities such as ME Research UK and the 25% Group prevented them.
Thank goodness there are some people with integrity, such as the people working for these tiny charities and Dr Speight, in the world.
AfME & AYME are working very hard for the psychiatrists and to reclassify M.E.as a vague psychological disorder instead of a discrete neurological illness. Shame they are using their associate members money for this outrage.
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