General practitioners' perceptions of chronic fatigue syndrome and beliefs about its management, compared with irritable bowel syndrome: qualitative study

Perspectives can change in a moment.
The abstract on general practitioners perceptions perceptions of CFS
compared to IBS has an entirely new meaning when read with the knowledge
of the molecular defect found in IBS.
Suddenly it is the general practitioners who are the obstinate ones.
No wonder their patients challenged their authority and refused referral
for mental health interventions.
Now that psychotheorists have had another one of their "behavioral
illnesses" stolen from them by science, will there be any apology to the
patients who only insisted that their suffering was as real as they
claimed?
Will the psychotheorists now be any less resolute in trying to fit CFS
into their psychological framework?
How many more illnesses must go through this psychoprocess before theories
of psychological causality are removed from phsyicians front line of
defense against their patients insistence that they are truly ill?
-Erik Johnson

Competing interests:
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