Missed Diagnoses Myalgic Encephalomyelitis & Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Second Edition
"Thirty years ago when a patient presented to a hospital clinic with unexplained fatigue, any medical school physician would have told the students to search for an occult malignancy, cardiac or other organ disease or chronic infection. The concept that there is an entity called chronic fatigue syndrome has totally altered that essential medical guideline.
Patients are now being diagnosed with CFS as though it were a disease. It is not.
It is a patchwork of symptoms that could mean anything. The original concepts of searching for occult disease are relevant to patients today with CFS, ME and other fatiguing illnesses. Furthermore, because you do not find pathology does not mean there is none."- Byron Hyde
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A shining example of this problem in the mail online at the moment. Esther Rantzen is now saying that her daughter Emily has now found out that she has coelac disease and is cured. Having already been 'cured' twice before that is, by the LP and the National ME centre
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-1356316/At-I-discovered-secret-Emilys-14-lost-years-Esther-Rantzen.html
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