Canadian medical & nursing students' survey responses following Unrest screening

[Sasha]

Interesting!

https://www.mefm.bc.ca/single-post/2017/11/06/Survey-Responses-from-UBC-TIMEFORUNREST-Screening

Particularly:

What is the most surprising thing you learnt tonight?

• How widespread the condition is
  
  
• I saw the poster showing 560,000 Canadians have ME but the movie really helped demonstrate how devastating it is.
  
  
• Existence of Complex Chronic Diseases clinic
  
  
• The prevalence - 2 x more than MS!!
  
  
• How severe + disabling it can be
  
  
• How prevalent and extreme it is! 17 million people!
  
  
• How much ME can change your life and how people ignore it because it's an invisible disease.
  
  
• I was shocked to see how severe this conditions impacts people and how little health care professionals know about this condition.
  
  
• The prevalence of ME and all the symptoms that ME comes with
  
  
• The severity possible
  
  
• The prevalence? Yes so many deny it exists.
  
  
• This is super prevalent but I hear so little about it
  
  
• Denmark case = patient removed from home was horrifying + traumatizing. Also the gender-relation in care shocked and angered me.
  
  
• Exercise is the worst advice for this conditions
  
  
• I was not aware of the severity and how wide the spectrum is.
  
  
• The severity of the illness, and its prevalence.
  
  
• How differently patients can present with symptoms and now resilient the patients are in the face of ME.
  
  
• That there doesn't really seem to be any definitive treatment.
  

 

[MErmaid]

Great feedback!

My favorites:

Q: “What are the most important questions that you have about ME after watching this film?”

A1: “the different treatments patients have tried and failed / had improvements with”

A2: “How do most patients w/ME live? At home? with family? Long term care?”