Patronising sod, made my blood boil.
Did Jen know she was being set up I wonder?
He was doing that classic doctor (/ male in a position of power) thing of not actually listening but just umming when she was speaking. It felt like an NHS doctors consultation at times (except about 4 times as long!). I also felt it was really bad form not to have watched the film in its entirety before conducting the interview. I mean he is a doctor who claims to work with ME/CFS patients. You would think he would find the subject matter of the film at least interesting enough to watch the whole film, but he "came back late from a gig". Clearly his own stand-up career is more important that the lives of the ME/CFS patients he purports to care for!
p.s. That interview would have been an ideal place to bring up Karina Hansen and the psychologization of ME patients in general. I wonder what "Dr Phil's" response to that would have been? He says he only saw the first half of the film, which is conveniently just before the Karina Hansen bit! Part of me wonders if that was deliberate.
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