Posted by Clint on April 21, 1999 at 23:35:42:
In Reply to: List of CH-Savy Docs posted by Clint on April 21, 1999 at 12:42:33:
Several good points have been raised. I suppose it would be
polite to ask your doc if they mind their name being posted.
Also, there may be a medical ethics thing involved (DocGreg, come
in). But it sure would be nice for people to be able to
find a doc who believes in CH's and understands what they are.
I had a friend years ago who got up one morning and was so fatigued
he could not work anymore, for long periods of time.
This of course was not good for his career as an Air Force
dentist. About the same time Chronic Fatigue Syndrome
hit the big news: 20/20, 60 minutes et. al. Well, at least some
of us started to believe he wasn't faking it. But amazingly,
some of the brightest doctors we knew thought he was!
How many of you have encountered this sort of ignorance?
The moral of the story is that old belief systems die hard
in medical circles as well as anywhere else. Until you or a loved
one has had CH's, you probably didn't believe in them either.
I suspect if Sam Donaldson or Tom Brokaw developed CH's the entire
country would become quickly educated. Every news agency would rush
to outdo the others exposing this "new" disease.
There has to be away.
Wishing you all freedom from CH's.