News from The Netherlands

[Utsikt]

After a long legal fight, the Dutch Employee Insurance Agency (UWV) must now accept scientific methods and tests like a CPET and tilt table tests that prove the disability of ME — a turning point for thousands seeking recognition and benefits.

Where does that leave the patients without abnormal CPET and tilt table results? Based on the studies that have been all over the place, this doesn’t seem like the best measure to use.

 

[Grigor]

Where does that leave the patients without abnormal CPET and tilt table results? Based on the studies that have been all over the place, this doesn’t seem like the best measure to use.

Good question, for those patients it will be harder if it's only based on criteria.

 

[rvallee]

Courts are one major place where civil rights violations have historically been corrected, and so far they have almost entirely failed us. This is, a start.