Letters From Dr. Enlander

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Letter to Editor
Daily Telegraph
London


21 Mar 2008


Sir,


Your article this week on Gene research in Myalgic
Encephalomyelitis by Dr Jonathan Kerr in St George's
Hospital was a breath of fresh air in the stale
atmosphere of UK government funded research.
Myalgic Encephalomyelitis and Chronic Fatigue
syndrome are commonly referred to as M.E. and
C.F.S.


In 1955 Dr Melvin Ramsay reviewed a cohort of
young doctors and nurses in the Royal Free Hospital
in London and published a report relating to their
massive debilitating fatigue. Over the years it has
been shown to be a physical disease.

The cause is obscure, this obscurity has been
masterfully used by psychiatrists to claim that the
disease is a manifestation of a psychiatric condition,
leading to an imagined problem. What arrogance !


The esteemed Royal Society of Medicine (RSM) plays
to this theme by running a conference next month on
ME / CFS. The speakers are dwelling mainly on
psychiatry, rather peculiar for a Society of Medicine.

Most of the estimated 190,000 patients in the UK
who suffer from this disease are appalled. A large
number of them have applied for a demonstration
permit outside the RSM to bring this wrongful thrust
to the nation's and RSM's attention.


The following week, May 6th, a conference in ME /
CFS will take place at Cambridge University where
the latest methods of diagnosis and treatment will
be defined. Dr Kerr will speak on the Genome in ME /
CFS.

Dr Klimas, a noted researcher and clinician in Miami
Florida, will speak on new developments and
diagnostic methods and  I will speak on the methods
of treatment both in the UK and the USA.


As far as I know the RSM has not noted these
physical aspects and has not altered its agenda in
the April conference.


The government through NICE continues to waste
money on proven bad methods of treatment, based
on forced exercise therapy which, in a large number
of cases, cause relapse.

Research on the physical basis of the disease has to
be funded by private foundations, CFS Research
Foundation, ME Research UK and patient money.

Surely, by now, the Government should
be embarrassed.



Derek Enlander MD, M.R.C.S., L.R.C.P.
New York

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From: DEnlander@aol.com



Removal of the Royal patronage
from the Royal Society of Medicine
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HRH The Queen
Buckingham Palace
London



2 April 2008


Your Majesty


I would like to bring your attention to indiscretions
of a Royal Society. The Royal Society of Medicine
has formed an alliance with an insurance
company, UNUM. This company has been held
liable in refusing to compensate patients who are
sick claiming that they are psychiatric.

The Royal Society of Medicine has invited
members of this company to speak at a Chronic
Fatigue Syndrome conference in which they and
others will portray the psychiatric viewpoint to the
exclusion of physical medical research.

Physicians and medical clinicians who treat this
disease are excluded. This is an injustice to
patients who are too ill to battle this insurance
company and the Royal Society of Medicine .

Their actions are egregious, in fact they harm
patients, the actions of the Royal Society of
Medicine are not in keeping with your Majesty's
insignia.


I would humbly suggest, your Majesty, that you
review the Royal Patent that this society has been
appended and perhaps remove the Royal
privilege from their name.


I, am, your humble servant,



Derek Enlander, M.R.C.S., L.R.C.P.