Gets it so much she wants us to do graded exercise in the things I've seen summarising her treatments. And someone or described her (and other doctors) as "maintaining functioning" in patients. Wow, I guess there's not much need for researchc after all if there's no reason for us to be non-functioning in the first place.
I have to agree with Jennie and Laurel, this is a mis-characterization of Dr. Bateman's work. Dr. Bateman runs a clinic for all fatigue patients but for research and clinical purposes she clearly differentiates between a number of patient sub-groups. I suggest that you watch Dr. Bateman's lecture from 12/2/09 on XMRV and how she groups her patients (http://www.offerutah.org/batemanxmrv.htm - roughly at the 30 minute mark). Dr. Bateman makes similar distinctions in the recent CAA XMRV webinar from 7/15/10 : http://www.cfids.org/webinar/series2010-past.asp#10 (slides 40-43). And then, if you're still not convinced, you can find her (OFFER UTAH's) upcoming physician and patient education conferences here: http://www.offerutah.org/conferences.htm
And after all of that, if you're feeling the slightest bit of remorse for having maligned Dr. Bateman when you didn't know much about her or her understanding of this disease, I suggest that you might want to donate to OFFER and assuage a some of those guilt feelings here: http://www.offerutah.org/donations.htm