I'm glad I didn't see the Yvette Cooper interview in Saturday's Guardian, it would've made me mad. Via Dr Speedy I have come across Dr John Greensmith's response to this interview, specifically, to Cooper's assertion that her consultant claimed '90% of people with ME make full recoveries'. As I said over at Dr Speedy's, I suspect this consultant is living in a parallel universe - and I am always suspicious of former ME sufferers who speak so blithely about recovery. Dr Greensmith's hits the nail on the head with sublime accuracy, highlighting the confusion between true neurological illness (ME) and chronic fatigue (CFS/ME) - 'a fudged collective diagnostic term'.
*Update: This correction by Yvette Cooper's consultant has been pointed out to me by another blogger. Dr Weir is understandably concerned that he has been misquoted by Yvette.
** Guardian has printed correction here.
*Update: This correction by Yvette Cooper's consultant has been pointed out to me by another blogger. Dr Weir is understandably concerned that he has been misquoted by Yvette.
** Guardian has printed correction here.
