MeSci
ME/CFS since 1995; activity level 6?
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Were you under the care of a doctor at the time? Didn't this concern them? I can see how people can get malnourished, but not to the point of death while under the care of medical professionals -- unless the patient refusing treatment for malnutrition, of course.
It's my understanding that this patient was seeing both a psychiatrist and a medical doctor. One or both should have recognized and treated severe malnutrition.
I was being prescribed various drugs to try to alleviate the diarrhoea and vomiting but nothing worked. But there was nothing the doc could do about the fact that I couldn't afford to eat healthily. I recall frequently saying to various people that what I needed was an injection of money. Welfare ministers please note.
Yes, it does seem extraordinary that such severe malnutrition as this poor man had was not addressed.