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Why do a lot of doctors not believe that conditions like CFS exist despite them being medically recognized diseases, and how do you get physicians to recognize that patients have such diseases without being brushed off?

How do doctors diagnose conditions like CFS which often do not have many physical markers of their presence?

Is there any hope that ME/CFS will be more medically recognized by doctors and healthcare workers in the near future due to the medical recognition of long covid?

We are taught to diagnose and provide management and see people get better - it makes us feel successful and we can pat ourselves on the back. So we hate it when people have disease we cant treat effectively. So we lie yo ourselves that the patients symptoms are made up to protect our ego.

Figures as much.

And yes, some people lie, but conditions like CFS are medically documented and exist. In fact there are doctors that specialize in these mysterious conditions - they're rare but CFS specialists are real. So why do doctors still deny the existence of these real diseases if they are in medical texts and are acknowledged in the medical world? Is it because they can't be treated, so doctors would rather dig their heads in the sand and pretend they don't exist instead of acknowledging current scientific literature?

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Secondly doctors have a lot of pride in their profession. An often touted phrase (for good reason) is that it is evidence based. But there is little evidence for a objective pathophysiological mechanism (something we can see objectively in the body) in these conditions - so we disbelieve they exist.

The mechanism exists, it's just that there hasn't been enough research into these conditions, so the mechanism isn't known. Maybe if the existence of the conditions stopped being denied so often because "oh the mechanism doesn't exist because we've yet to see it" there'd be more research poured into these conditions to discover the specific pathophysiological mechanism behind them. It doesn't make sense for these conditions to simply not have a mechanism in the body, that goes against the laws of physics - such conditions just don't appear out of thin air - it's simply that the mechanism has yet to be discovered. But considering the amount of people who have conditions like MS, CFS, and long covid, their existence is very real... the conditions are just mysterious due to the lack of research done for them.