nb also a letter from Charles Shepherd. https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC1882994/ eta: I think it was in response to this Follow up of patients presenting with fatigue to an infectious diseases clinic, 1992, Sharpe et al. | Science for ME
I hadn't realised Chronic Fatigue syndrome had been established in the UK by that date. I went to my dr asking if I had m.e in 1994, after being fobbed off years and this was the term we used, not Chronic Fatigue syndrome. Already it's clear that if you make m.e a Chronic Fatigue syndrome that Becomes interchangeable with chronic fatigue and as vague as back pain, you're going to get into trouble.
