This is intersting. It seems that many people who don't like for CFS to be classified in the same category as Benign Myalgic Encephalomyelitis or who don't like the term ME/CFS or who talk about a "wastebin diagnosis" probably have been inspired by Dr. Hyde.
What is a bit confusing is that what he calls "CFS" is something very different from what other CFS definitions define, becase the definitions i know would exclude you, if you have any other illness that can explain your symptoms. I actually don't see any reason for what he calls "CFS" to exist at all, why even give that a name? It's a mixed bag of simply fatigued people whitout any other symptoms and maybe even without any illness at all and people with all sorts of not yet identified known or unknown other illnesses. This is very different from CFS as defined by other definitions. I think we badly need to weed out that jungle of definitions...
I think i will try to get one or some of his books, if i have some time and feel capable of dealing with so much new information.
I like the idea of finding other, missed diagnoses, of course, but then it's also important what you do with the ones identified as having ME. And it would be great to have an objective measure of the success rate. I'm grateful for people like Dr. Hyde, but i wish ME/CFS would be something where every doctor, all around the world, would know how to diagnose and treat it, and not like it is now, that we have a handful of specialists that often don't even agree with each other and where we have little chance of really knowing how successful they are and if they are right.