Guardian article: A catalogue of losses: what chronic fatigue took away from my life - by Mike Mariani

It's a good article, telling the story of his first couple of years with ME/CFS - lots of doctors seen before diagnosis, lots of money wasted on ineffective treatments, then after a couple of years, reassessing and deciding to give up on unevidenced treatments and try to make a new life within the constraints of the disease instead of fighting it.
It's an excerpt from his book:
This is an edited excerpt from What doesn’t kill us makes us: who we become after tragedy and trauma by Mike Mariani, published by Ballantine Books, an imprint of Random House
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Excellent article.

I noted this author followed up with physicians regarding their failed treatments.
I think in a number of cases that's an unusual scenario.

Perhaps we would have slightly more progress if these practitioners, of whatever stripe, were more frequently confronted with their failures.

I say a bit more progress, as there are doubtless many practitioners who don't change, and just wait for more customers to come along.
 
Superbly written and powerful in a way that reminds me of Laura Hillenbrand’s "A sudden illness". Even skeptics would find it hard to just belittle this story or doubt its credibility (provided they carefully read it first…).
 
Shadrach Loom said:
That’s fantastic! If you don’t mind me asking, just because it’s such impressive responsiveness, was that online form, generic email, Twitter or personal contact? (And if the latter, maybe you can get them to take down this too :)).
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The address for corrections — which is the address I used — is: guardian.readers@theguardian.com

I had to email twice because the person manning this email address misunderstood my issue with the article's title. But it was corrected after that.
 
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