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Hi,

I'm a sufferer, though not as severely as OP.

It is not bullshit, I can assure you. Without a diagnostic test for the condition, nor opulent funding it is not surprising people don't understand ME/CFS.

Cunts like yourself are not helping.

If you are a doctor, like you claim to be, may I suggest reading more on the subject? Perhaps Dr Charles Shepherd's 'Living With M.E. for a start.

And may I quote line 4 from your Hippocratic Oath:

"I will remember that there is art to medicine as well as science, and that warmth, sympathy, and understanding may outweigh the surgeon's knife or the chemist's drug."

No, you are just turning away from people with a genuine illness. You even mock us.

You are an embarrassment to the medical profession, I can only hope you feel ashamed as you should do in years to come.

What is the mood behind the scenes in the press?

Friend of a friend of a friend said that the BBC don't want independence because of the economy of scale, yet many employees do support the yes campaign privately.

What's the buzz at the Guardian/your counterparts at other publications.

You have nice hair.

So.. you don't believe that this is a real condition, therefore everyone is faking and should just 'get on with it'?

You can't shirk this as personal opinion, you've presented yourself on Reddit as a Doctor. You should know better, and the anonymity of the internet is no excuse for what you are supposed to represent.

Go drink a bottle of cheap vodka whilst running a marathon; make a note of how you feel the next day. Have that next-day feeling every day - for years - whilst trying to get help from the medical community who have not based their opinion on a 25 year old copy of NewsWeek. You'll probably revert to finding help for yourself, searching the internet for advice, news and hope.

Then come across a cardiologist from Canada who'd rather belittle people he's never met about something he clearly doesn't understand.

Then, well, whenever you like, go and fuck yourself.

You can argue as much as you like, but you will still be wrong.