- Messages
- 26
- Location
- Gloucestershire
Talking about his childhood.
Father raised in Prague. Kindertransport rescued 1939. Family all killedin WWII. Settled in UK.
Mother English. Both parents teachers.
Doesn't think background had any effect on him. 'normal happy childhood'.
Decided to study medicine at 15.
Reading Anthony Clare's book persuade d him to do psychiatry.
Fellow students at first psych job at Maudsley have stuck together.
Got interested in CFS at Queens square clinic. CFS thought to be a muscle disease then. Idea dismissed . No one wanted to see these patients. passed to psychiatrist s.
In the late 90s/ early 2000s I sent for info from a neurologist whose name and hosp (London somewhere) annoyingly I forget, and in an email to me he said CFS patients have to accept that a physical cause will never be found!!
I replied saying absence of proof not proof of absence, but he didnt reply.