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    Embracing Change - ME and the International Classification of Diseases

    Hi Suzy, Annette is also my M.P. so I guess we must live in a similar area I wondered if you had any experience with the renown Purbeck M.E. Clinic held at Wareham Hospital or the very sympathetic rheumatologist Dr Richards who is the specialist for that clinic? I also have a question for...
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    Embracing Change - ME and the International Classification of Diseases

    Dear friends, as a long time sufferer of M.E., for a third of my life, 20 years in fact, I was thoroughly fed up with the term “Mental Micky” that used to be applied behind my back and sometime to my face, as a long term student of psychology at both Aston University, Birmingham and Edinburgh...