Blog: How Long COVID Is Forcing a Reckoning with the Neglect of Post-Infectious Chronic Illnesses

Sly Saint

Sly Saint

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The medical and scientific communities have historically treated ME as psychosomatic. Consequently, patients are still routinely exposed to gendered medical gaslighting, their physiological symptoms dismissed by physicians and misdiagnosed as anxiety, another serious illness that has not been taken seriously by the medical profession. In fact, for years ME/CFS was referred to as “yuppie flu,” a term that served as a reminder to patients that their illness was imaginary and cemented the neglect of this patient population.
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https://blog.petrieflom.law.harvard.edu/2021/07/29/long-covid-chronic-illness/
 
Now that's what's I'm talking about. Decades of failure have to be recognized for what they are and not only is there no good interpretation for what happened, no possible spin of a good faith effort, it's all worse in context and the more context you add the worse it is.

Glad to see this outside of our small community bubble. The way medicine is dealing with this reminds me of every government in history that has gone to war for so long it doesn't even know what they're doing out there dying and killing but it's just too embarrassing to stop, and also too lucrative for some, so the death and suffering continues. None of this is normal and the tone will only grow closer to what reality demands of it. Physicians lied and sick people suffered and died needlessly, there must be accountability for it.
 
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