Dear all,
The user justinreilly came up with a great idea. Part of the problem behind doctors not understanding our illness is that they are given no training in CFS/ME. Many (most?) medical textbooks push the Wessely view. If we are going to change these beliefs we really have to get it through to the new generation of medical students that this is a real disease.
Enter Amazon reviews...
All we have to do is give poor (1star) reviews to medical textbooks that push the Wessely view. All of the hard work has even been done for us by the industrious justinreilly - from his Amazon web page it is easy to see which books he gives 1star reviews to:
http://www.amazon.com/gp/cdp/member..._pdp_rev_all?ie=UTF8&sort_by=MostRecentReview
Imagine: if we could all do our part we could easily bring down the average score to 1star. This would force textbook editors to take notice and make a change for the better. If we don't do things like this nothing's ever going to change - so get in there and have fun! Let's aim to bring down this part of the establishment - this is a real achievable task.
Cig
p.s. Don't forget to give other pro-CFS reviewers a vote by clicking on "Yes" to the question "Was this review helpful to you?"
The user justinreilly came up with a great idea. Part of the problem behind doctors not understanding our illness is that they are given no training in CFS/ME. Many (most?) medical textbooks push the Wessely view. If we are going to change these beliefs we really have to get it through to the new generation of medical students that this is a real disease.
Enter Amazon reviews...
All we have to do is give poor (1star) reviews to medical textbooks that push the Wessely view. All of the hard work has even been done for us by the industrious justinreilly - from his Amazon web page it is easy to see which books he gives 1star reviews to:
http://www.amazon.com/gp/cdp/member..._pdp_rev_all?ie=UTF8&sort_by=MostRecentReview
Imagine: if we could all do our part we could easily bring down the average score to 1star. This would force textbook editors to take notice and make a change for the better. If we don't do things like this nothing's ever going to change - so get in there and have fun! Let's aim to bring down this part of the establishment - this is a real achievable task.
Cig
p.s. Don't forget to give other pro-CFS reviewers a vote by clicking on "Yes" to the question "Was this review helpful to you?"