The case for the prosecution of chronic fatigue syndrome
Keywords:
Neurasthenia, Chronic fatigue syndrome, Physicians, family.
Abstract
A case of Chronic Fatigue Syndrome must fulfill two major criteria and six or more of the 11 symptom criteria and two or more of the three physical criteria; or eight or more of the 11 symptom criteria. The prosecutor argues that, in this case, biomedicine has gone a bridge too far.
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