My newest #MEAction article investigates what a naturopathic, chiropractic, and Traditional Chinese Medicine school teach about ME/CFS: http://www.meaction.net/2017/01/03/three-schools-of-alternative-medicine-teach-about-me/ Extra: I couldn't fit in the homeopathic school, but Northwestern Academy of Homeopathy also includes ME in its classroom and clinical training. Allopathic medicine schools, take note! The next question I plan to investigate is what it would take for ME to be included on medical board certification exams. If you can help in any way, please let me know! Darla Nagel is an editor and writing tutor who has an invisible chronic illness. She wants to help other patients and enlighten health care professionals about our experiences. If you’d like to be alerted whenever she writes a new post, sign up by e-mailing darla.nagel@gmail.com.
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Millions of ME patients are missing from their lives because millions of dollars are missing in research funding and because millions of health care professionals lack education in this disease. #MillionsMissing To learn more about myalgic encephalomyelitis, go here. Please help me make my voice heard today by sharing this post. Darla Nagel is an editor and writing tutor who has an invisible chronic illness. She wants to help other patients and enlighten health care professionals about our experiences. If you’d like to be alerted whenever she writes a new post, sign up by e-mailing darla.nagel@gmail.com. I reviewed more than 80 textbooks, and only two mentioned the name myalgic encephalomyelitis rather than chronic fatigue syndrome. You can see my findings here: http://www.meaction.net/2016/07/19/medical-textbooks-in-mecfs-2-of-2/ Photo: Samantha Marx, Flickr Creative Commons Darla Nagel is an editor and writing tutor who has an invisible chronic illness. She wants to help other patients and enlighten health care professionals about our experiences. If you’d like to be alerted whenever she writes a new post, sign up by e-mailing darla.nagel@gmail.com.
Two pieces I wrote were published yesterday! If you want to read an excerpt from my memoir, something heartfelt and personal, go here: https://batemanhornecenter.org/instant-relief/ If you want to read about what medical textbooks say about myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome, go here: http://www.meaction.net/…/medical-textbooks-earn-a-failing…/ I write not just for the thrill of seeing my byline. I'm writing so that others learn about this disease and so that people with this disease and others like it don't feel alone and powerless. Let me know how I'm doing by commenting! Darla Nagel is an editor and writing tutor who has an invisible chronic illness. She wants to help other patients and enlighten health care professionals about our experiences. If you’d like to be alerted whenever she writes a new post, sign up by e-mailing darla.nagel@gmail.com.
I dusted off my journalism hat—it's been a few years since I've had the energy to write something investigative—to explore what medical schools teach about myalgic encephalomyelitis. Short version: They teach practically nothing. Full version here at MEAction: http://www.meaction.net/2016/06/08/medical-school-students-learn-little-about-mecfs/ I intend to follow this up with two related articles, so stay tuned! Darla Nagel is an editor and writing tutor who has an invisible chronic illness. She wants to help other patients and enlighten health care professionals about our experiences. If you’d like to be alerted whenever she writes a new post, sign up by e-mailing darla.nagel@gmail.com.
These are the shoes I sent to DC for a protest called MillionsMissing. Millions of people with myalgic encephalomyelitis (also called chronic fatigue syndrome) are missing from their hobbies, schools, careers, and families because of an illness that receives insufficient research funding from the government. #millionsmissing Darla Nagel is an editor and writing tutor who has an invisible chronic illness. She wants to help other patients and enlighten health care professionals about our experiences. If you’d like to be alerted whenever she writes a new post, sign up by e-mailing darla.nagel@gmail.com.
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