Thread by @keithgeraghty, Do GPs think they do "good" with patients with ongoing fatigue? It [...]

Do GPs think they do "good" with patients with ongoing fatigue? It amazes me the compassion for LongCovid (witnessing distress/suffering), ....so dearly lacking in ME/CFS, yet ME/CFS has been around a lot longer as have patients with it @trishgreenhalgh https://soundcloud.com/bmjpodcasts/what-do-we-know-about-long-covid

"4 legs 2, 2 legs bad": @trishgreenhalgh 'citizen science' good for Covid v bad for ME/CFS patients called "miltants" by Lancet editor and senior UK psychiatrists after they dared question a model of CFS they disgree with! https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/29971693/

Are ME/CFS Patient Organizations "Militant"? : Patient Protest in a Medical Controversy - PubMed

Myalgic encephalomyelitis or chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS) is a contested illness category. This paper investigates the common claim that patients with ME/CFS-and by extension, ME/CFS patient...

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/29971693/

mention of MCAS, POTs, fatigue, patients not able to "go out for a drink, work or interact with their families"....sound familiar ? Does to anyone with ME/CFS or working on it for years ---- seems GPs are only recongising such a thing since Covid

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