ramsay

A Scottish piece shared by ME Association today. The 1 cleverly worded comment is presumably a BPS proponent and criticises it for stigmatising people with psychological illnesses as not being all in the mind, suggesting we should "keep an open mind" (that ME is too). £...

Substack Making sense of ME/CFS Melvin Ramsay, the Royal Free Hospital outbreak, and the evolving understanding of ME. Myalgic encephalomyelitis, 1955-1990 - by K. Johnstone (substack.com)

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...

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I realise this may be controversial but it goes into it quite deeply, maybe too deeply. https://www.change.org/p/dr-paul-chrisp-define-melvin-ramsay-s-myalgic-encephalomyelitis-m-e-as-own-distinct-disease-from-cfs

The entire November 1978 issue of the Post Graduate Medical Journal was devoted to ME and can be accessed here (note ME is called Epidemic Neuromyasthenia in this issue): http://pmj.bmj.com/content/54/637 Click on the article name in the table of contents, and then click on the PDF symbol on...

From me-pedia: "The advantages of using the term, "Ramsay's Disease," is that as science discovers more about the pathophysiology of the disease, the name would not have to change. Currently, the many changes in the name of the illness has interfered with an accurate literature search for...

I'm not sure that I've seen this linked elsewhere, but the entire November 1978 issue of the Post Graduate Medical Journal was devoted to ME and is online. It includes articles by Melvin Ramsay and J. Gordon Parish among others. I thought it might be of historical interest to some. Here, ME is...