What's in a name

[Halflife]

Research looking at name most popular with patients along with favoured diagnosis criteria from a confusing list of available choices.

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[Cloudedout]

Patients are experts who would have guessed that without a researcher.

[Jonesbones]

CFS is an artificial construct manufactured by psychiatrists as patients we should ignore it and use the name that predates it M.E

[Ian123]

In 1955, in an article in the Lancet, Sir Donald Acheson coined the term Benign Myalgic Encephalomyelitis which Dr Melvin Ramsay realised was not at all benign shortened it into M.E -Myalgic Encephalomyelitis.