Research looking at name most popular with patients along with favoured diagnosis criteria from a confusing list of available choices.
What's in a name: Research looking at name... - Ramsays Disease
What's in a name
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Patients are experts who would have guessed that without a researcher.
CFS is an artificial construct manufactured by psychiatrists as patients we should ignore it and use the name that predates it M.E
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.