Framing with fatigue
Both of the documents include the same description of the overview that will begin the meeting:
Dr. Maier will detail the topic and why it is of public health importance:
Overwhelming fatigue or malaise as a public health problem
Controversies that exist
Treating ME/CFS with drug and non-drug therapies
Just to be sure you didn’t miss it, here’s is the framing for this meeting on ME/CFS:
Overwhelming fatigue or malaise as a public health problem. Not ME/CFS as a public health problem. Not post-exertional malaise as a public health problem. Not cognitive dysfunction and disability as a public health problem. To NIH, “overwhelming fatigue” is the public health problem.
This is so wrong. It ignores what we’ve been saying about our experiences for years. It ignores the science on PEM and cognitive dysfunction. It ignores the fundamental question of what disease or diseases are being included in the CFS bucket. In fact, it steps back in time to the Oxford definition: overwhelming fatigue alone...
Read more: http://www.occupycfs.com/2014/05/22/p2p-agenda-fatigue/