The province of Alberta (Canada) releases its ME guidelines for clinical practice

[JaimeS]

Odd question, but does anyone know why this is becoming public now? It's dated January 2016.

 

[merealcfs]

The reason you have never heard a Canadian doctor mention the Canadian Consensus Criteria is because after it was published in 2003, it was shelved. You could say it was suppressed by Health Canada. If you look at page 7 of the CCC, you will see that Health Canada drew up the terms of reference for the document. Health Canada also selected the expert medical panel to author the criteria. Once completed, this valuable work, used by biomedical ME experts worldwide, was not disseminated to Canadian doctors. The Oxford an Fukuda criteria were popular at the time, and still are, despite the NIH, P2P recommendation to retire Oxford. One wonders why the CCC was suppressed.

 

[taniaaust1]

@Amaya2014 Unfortunately, it isn't only doctors' "internal dialogue" we have to contend with. A few years ago, following advice from a sleep specialist resulted in the worst ME crash I've ever experienced. I took a copy of the ME "International Consensus Primer for Medical Practitioners" to my next appointment, with the advice regarding sleep highlighted. The specialist treated the document as if it were on fire. He threw it on the floor at my feet, while stating he knew none of the doctors involved in writing it, and that it meant nothing to him. This is the first, and only, time I've literally screamed at a medical practitioner. How he could later describe me as "pleasant" in his report to my physician, I'll never know. Regardless, I didn't return to his practice.

He probably described you as "pleasant" as he probably didnt want the other to hear about his reaction. It would kind of make you look a little nuts if you told your doctor about it while at same time having this other doctor say you were pleasant and behaving like nothing odd occurred.

ive had that a bit, with someone acting in two completely different ways and it ends up leaving others feeling confused when I complain.