militancy

"There have been medically motivated attacks in the past: psychiatrists working on chronic fatigue in the UK received death threats in 2011, and in 2022 a doctor in Tulsa was shot by a patient with back pain." https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/are-you-in-chronicpain/

paywalled https://www.telegraph.co.uk/health-fitness/doctors-diary/became-target-militants/ How I became a target for the ME militants The current row over Nice guidelines on chronic fatigue syndrome is strikingly similar to the one I found myself caught up in 20 years ago DR MICHAEL...

Last week, an old story was recounted to a new audience. During the March 30, 2021 NIH telebriefing with the ME/CFS community, Dr. Vicky Whittemore said that there had been death threats against grant reviewers in the past, and that this was one reason why NIH is now withholding the names of...

https://blogs.bmj.com/bmj/2019/11/26/should-patient-advocates-adopt-guerilla-tactics/

To put it simply: we are falsely accused of unspecified misconduct. The vast majority of advocacy we do revolves about us BEGGING FOR HELP and pleading those responsible to understand what happens in real life. That we are accused of being fake patients, cultists, deranged lunatics, fascists...

Paywalled at https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11673-018-9866-5