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This is an opinion piece opposed to the recent Dutch Health Council changes. Apparently the physiology of ME/CFS has a lot in common with leprechauns. Google translated article here, original (in Dutch), https://www.medischcontact.nl/opinie/blogs-columns/column/cvs-of-waar-is-mijn-kous.htm

"ABSTRACT ME (also known as chronic fatigue syndrome), a medical disorder of unknown aetiology, generated considerable media attention in the late 1980s and during the 1990s. Patients insisted they suffered from an organic disease, while certain lay and medical commentators construed the...

This was originally posted by @Cinders66 here On 23rd February 1988, Scottish MP Jimmy Hood tried to introduce a Bill in to the UK parliament "to require an annual report to Parliament on progress made in investigating the causes, effects and treatment of myalgic encephalomyelitis." Details of...

In the Kingdom of the Sick: A Social History of Chronic Illness in America - by Laurie Edwards Interview with the Author here: https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/turning-straw-gold/201306/in-the-kingdom-the-sick-interview-laurie-edwards "When patients are sick with symptoms that aren’t...

"It is a sad irony that Florence Nightingale (1820-1910), the founder of modern nursing, who made such important contributions to public health through her advocacy of sanitation, statistics, and common sense, should also be remembered as history's most famous invalid and possibly as its most...

The connections between government and the insurance business in their joint project to reduce eligibility for sickness benefits. https://www.lwbooks.co.uk/sites/default/files/s36_04rutherford.pdf " In November 2001 a conference assembled at Woodstock, near Oxford. Its subject was ‘Malingering...

The entire November 1978 issue of the Post Graduate Medical Journal was devoted to ME and can be accessed here (note ME is called Epidemic Neuromyasthenia in this issue): http://pmj.bmj.com/content/54/637 Click on the article name in the table of contents, and then click on the PDF symbol on...

I'm not sure that I've seen this linked elsewhere, but the entire November 1978 issue of the Post Graduate Medical Journal was devoted to ME and is online. It includes articles by Melvin Ramsay and J. Gordon Parish among others. I thought it might be of historical interest to some. Here, ME is...

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4967779/ I'm sure I've discussed this paper previously, but seeing others complaining recently about how bad the 1996 CFS report was made this line stand it. Is it publicly acknowledged Wessely took a lead with that? That was before my time, but...

00:08 – 02:37 - John Church reports on suffers of M.E. (Myalgic Encephalomyelitis) commonly called Chronic Fatigue Syndrome. He interviews a number of suffers who are learning to live with the illness and how they cope with their daily lives. He talks to Professor Dennis Wakefield about causes...

What is Myalgic Encephalomyelitis: A Brief Historical Introduction ~by John Duncan and Maryann Spurgin https://docs.google.com/document/d/...rpisFHre9YR25uO3M/edit#heading=h.dp2zvnpo8one (note:I haven't read it yet)