Article on ME in New York State Academy of Family Physicians' Winter 2018 "Family Doctor" journal

Andy · Feb 8, 2018

and it looks pretty good, mainly due to being written by Mary Dimmock, Susan Levine and Terri Wilder.

Introduction
Myalgic encephalomyelitis (ME), also known as chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS) or ME/CFS remains an elusive diagnosis to most family and primary care practitioners. There are currently no Federal Drug Administration (FDA) approved treatments specific to this disease. Clinical guidance has often recommended cognitive behavioral (CBT) and graded exercise therapy (GET), but these therapies are inappropriate and potentially harmful for patients with
ME/CFS.

In 2015, the Institute of Medicine (IOM, now called the National Academy of Medicine) issued new clinical diagnostic criteria for ME/CFS and summarized the growing evidence of biological impairment. Since then, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) has funded three Centers of Excellence to study ME/CFS, a pediatric ME/CFS primer has been published, and the Centers
for Disease Control (CDC) has updated the diagnostic and treatment information on its website.

Family physicians have a critical role to play in providing early diagnosis and effective treatment of this disabling disease.
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Starts at page 23 in this PDF, http://www.nysafp.org/NYSAFP/media/PDFs/Family Doctor/Family-Physician-Winter-2018WEB.pdf

Trish · Feb 8, 2018

Looks excellent to me. Only 3 pages (23 to 25), so a good one to print off and give your doctor, I think.

Daisymay · Feb 8, 2018

Andy said: ↑

and it looks pretty good, mainly due to being written by Mary Dimmock, Susan Levine and Terri Wilder.

Starts at page 23 in this PDF, http://www.nysafp.org/NYSAFP/media/PDFs/Family Doctor/Family-Physician-Winter-2018WEB.pdf
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Very good article, and short enough that GP's etc my just read it.

Sly Saint · Feb 8, 2018

Andy said: ↑

Terri Wilder
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Terri has been working with the New York State Department of Health to build an ME webpage for them;
should be done soon.

Esther12 · Feb 9, 2018

Some strong stuff in there, critical of the way CBT/GET have been promoted.

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