One of the biggest newspapers in Denmark, Politiken, has an article today covering the ME-debate in Denmark. The title is: "Foreign professors: you are treating chronic fatigued Danes wrong"
They have interviewed professor Ola Saugstad (Norway) - "If Denmark still thinks ME is a functional disorder, this needs to change ASAP. An attitude like that is very harmful to the patients"
Professor Komaroff - "It is not primarily at psychiatric disease and it is not a disease that the patients imagine they have"
Professor Staines and Sonya Marshall-Gradisnik contributes in a mail to the newspaper that GET and CBT are harmful treatments for patients
The article also
- Sums up the IOM-report
- Introduces the Danish ME Association
- Discusses the differences between research on ME and the "official" view on the disease in Denmark as a functional disorder
- Interviews Danish Health Authority who says the diagnostic criteria for CFS fits the definition of functional disorders, as an illness with severe, but unexplained, physical symptoms.
All because today the Danish ME Association will have a meeting with Danish health authorities. They are bringing with them a 112-pages long report on ME.
Best of luck to them. Hope things will turn around in Denmark soon!
They have interviewed professor Ola Saugstad (Norway) - "If Denmark still thinks ME is a functional disorder, this needs to change ASAP. An attitude like that is very harmful to the patients"
Professor Komaroff - "It is not primarily at psychiatric disease and it is not a disease that the patients imagine they have"
Professor Staines and Sonya Marshall-Gradisnik contributes in a mail to the newspaper that GET and CBT are harmful treatments for patients
The article also
- Sums up the IOM-report
- Introduces the Danish ME Association
- Discusses the differences between research on ME and the "official" view on the disease in Denmark as a functional disorder
- Interviews Danish Health Authority who says the diagnostic criteria for CFS fits the definition of functional disorders, as an illness with severe, but unexplained, physical symptoms.
All because today the Danish ME Association will have a meeting with Danish health authorities. They are bringing with them a 112-pages long report on ME.
Best of luck to them. Hope things will turn around in Denmark soon!
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