———————————————————————————–
“To the very few physicians still practicing today who began seeing patients with this illness some 40 years ago and who have continued to record and publish their clinical findings throughout, the current enthusiasm for renaming and reassigning this serious disability to subgroups of putative and vague ‘fatigue’ entities, must appear more of a marketing exercise than a rational basis for essential international research.
It was not always so unnecessarily complicated!”
(Dr. E.G. Dowsett, UK microbiologist, immunologist and virologist, had an interest in hospital infections and epidemiology when she began collaborating with Dr. Melvin Ramsay on the study of ME. in 1976. Since then she has been an outspoken advocate for patients and researchers on properly distinguishing the well-defined historic disease ME from CFS.)
November 11, 2008 at 2:18 pm
it’s great to see a post about dr.dowsett. she’s done and continues to do so much for people with neurological m.e. – as folks go she’s one of the best.
good to see this blog still going too.