Fresh new young energetic Doctor had never heard of ME/CFS

[southwestforests]

Hey Y'all; Just home from Dr appt to determine whether UTI symptoms were that, or kidney stones, of just another case of my quirky body's reaction to a couple known things which can cause that type of reaction, among them being oil base enamel model paints which I had to cease using between 1980s and early 2000s.

My grey haired Physician is soon retiring, and there was time, so I asked this young new doctor about several things.
Including about his take on ME/CFS.
Either new guy is exceptionally talented at obfuscating body language or he had exactly as claimed not even heard of ME/CFS before.
Meaning, Not Ever Heard of ME/CFS in Med School.

So, since we had time, I gave quick review of my Dad then 22 years later me ending up diagnosed with ME/CFS.
And a few data points about the psych versus physical controversy.

My Dad was diagnosed with ME/CFS in or around 1983 by US Navy and other military doctors in the big military hospitals in Virginia.
Both the Physicians and Psychiatrists said and Showed via tests, -> In The Early 1980s <- that ME/CFS is very much a physical disease and not at all caused psychologically.

And yet ...

Out here in the civilian health care world with ME/CFS ...

We have dead patients.

 

[southwestforests]

Here,
about med schools,

https://kstp.com/kstp-news/top-news...expand-care-to-everybody-who-has-the-disease/

Minnesota’s first ME/CFS doctor on a mission to expand care to ‘everybody who has the disease’
Renée Cooper KSTP
Updated: March 29, 2024 - 7:08 PM
Published: March 29, 2024 - 4:13 PM

Tam’s journey began with one of her family medicine patients in 2015. She couldn’t figure out what was causing their persistent fatigue, which was debilitating enough to keep them out of work. Tam said her patient ultimately had to seek that answer across the country.

When they returned with an ME/CFS diagnosis, Tam’s world was changed.

Remembering back to her inability to diagnose that first patient, she said, “I thought to myself for a moment, ‘Oh, my goodness, I did not learn that in medical school. Maybe I’m missing something.'”

After a bit of digging around, Tam said it turns out ME/CFS is not taught in many medical schools.

“So no doctors knew what it was,” she said. “And apparently, it has been going on for decades, and a lot of the patients were undiagnosed and were just told that it is in their head.”

Following the discovery, Tam decided to teach herself and treat her patient at home in Minnesota.

“So we kind of learned the disease together,” she said, adding, “And then the word spread really quickly.”

Note those bits,

she said, “I thought to myself for a moment, ‘Oh, my goodness, I did not learn that in medical school. Maybe I’m missing something.'”
After a bit of digging around, Tam said it turns out ME/CFS is not taught in many medical schools.

Following the discovery, Tam decided to teach herself and treat her patient at home in Minnesota.
“So we kind of learned the disease together,” she said,

That's

FORTY YEARS AFTER DAD WAS DIAGNOSED!!!

And 19 years after I was diagnosed.

Said it before, will say it again,