2 letters Re: 'Milestone' celebrated as ME document is sent to GPs (Edinburgh Evening News, 18 May 2009)

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Title: 'Milestone' celebrated as ME document is sent to GPs (Edinburgh

Evening News, 18 May 2009)

Contains: Following pressure from an NHS Lothian study, the ish

Government has circulated a document to all GPs asking them to look more

closely at the symptoms and treatment of the chronic illness, which causes

extreme tiredness and pain ... The ish Good Practice Statement on ME

comes after an internal report by NHS Lothian which acknowledges ME – or

chronic fatigue syndrome – has been neglected for years and related services

are in desperate need of a shake-up ... A spokeswoman for Edinburgh ME

Self-Help Group, which lobbies for improvements in medical and public

awareness, said: " This is actually something of a milestone.

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