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- From: dyer@spdcc.com (Steve Dyer)
- Newsgroups: sci.med
- Subject: Re: discovery!? cure!!
- Message-ID: <1992Nov12.232339.19541@spdcc.com>
- Date: 12 Nov 92 23:23:39 GMT
- References: <1992Nov11.4274.26500@dosgate> <1992Nov11.221252.2293@cnsvax.uwec.edu>
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- In article <1992Nov11.221252.2293@cnsvax.uwec.edu> nyeda@cnsvax.uwec.edu (David Nye) writes:
- >> I was extreamly sick and accutane(Isotretinoin) cured me! No doctor has
- >> yet been able to explain why.
- >> One doctor has diagnosed my illness as myalgic encephalomyelitis.
- >> Other doctors just say "maybe a virus".
- >
- >Your case is very interesting. I don't know of a condition called "myalgic
- >encephalomyelitis".
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- That's because it's a preposterous name popular in Britain for
- "Chronic Fatigue Syndrome". Talk about a mouthful which is tailor-
- made for hypochondriacs--it has every scarey Greek cognate root
- you can think of, and is absolutely meaningless if you try to
- make sense out of the name.
-
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- Steve Dyer
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