Mind the gap | 30 August 2011
From our UK edition
As a break from Westminster, readers might enjoy this article, from the latest issue of the magazine, on the efforts to undertand ME or Chronic Fatigue Syndrome. In 1987, I went to work as a trainee psychiatrist at the National Hospital for Neurology in Queen’s Square in London. One of my jobs was to see a group of patients who were not popular with the neurologists who ran the place. The patients had symptoms that might have had a neurological explanation — muscle pain, inability to walk, being unable to think clearly, feeling exhausted after the most minimal physical or mental exertion — yet the neurologists thought that they were at best suffering from depression or at worst swinging the lead.
