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Dr. Enlander has submitted the following comment to the M.E. Global Chronicle:
"I have read the IOM report and the defence by Lucinda Bateman. I applaud the notion of reviewing the disease that we have in the past called Myalgic Encephalomelitis (ME), Post Viral Fatigue, Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (CFS) , Chronic Fatigue Immune Deficiency Syndrome (CFIDS) and a panoply of other terms. The report may induce the medical community, and the public at large, to consider this diagnosis as a physical condition rather than a trivial manifestation of the patient's imagination.
"The criteria for a diagnosis has been reviewed for at least two decades including Holmes, Fukuda and the Canadian Consensus and now the IOM criteria.
"The naivete of the IOM criteria are the lack of exclusions which are contained in previous criteria. It is peculiar that Lucinda Bateman did not see this problem in her specialist opinion. The IOM criteria as they now stand can include psychiatric induced fatigue or simple fatigue conditions, there are virtually no exclusions."
Derek Enlander M.D., M.R.C.S., L.R.C.P.
ME CFS CENTER
MOUNT SINAI SCHOOL OF MEDICINE
NEW YORK
Dr. Enlander has submitted the following comment to the M.E. Global Chronicle:
"I have read the IOM report and the defence by Lucinda Bateman. I applaud the notion of reviewing the disease that we have in the past called Myalgic Encephalomelitis (ME), Post Viral Fatigue, Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (CFS) , Chronic Fatigue Immune Deficiency Syndrome (CFIDS) and a panoply of other terms. The report may induce the medical community, and the public at large, to consider this diagnosis as a physical condition rather than a trivial manifestation of the patient's imagination.
"The criteria for a diagnosis has been reviewed for at least two decades including Holmes, Fukuda and the Canadian Consensus and now the IOM criteria.
"The naivete of the IOM criteria are the lack of exclusions which are contained in previous criteria. It is peculiar that Lucinda Bateman did not see this problem in her specialist opinion. The IOM criteria as they now stand can include psychiatric induced fatigue or simple fatigue conditions, there are virtually no exclusions."
Derek Enlander M.D., M.R.C.S., L.R.C.P.
ME CFS CENTER
MOUNT SINAI SCHOOL OF MEDICINE
NEW YORK