Doc Talk: Communicating With Your Health Care Team About CFS

The complexity of chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS) breeds frustration among both patients and physicians. Patients want health care providers who, at the least, are sympathetic to their illness, and at best, understand it. They want symptom relief and their lives back. Physicians generally want to carry out their oaths to do no harm, unravel the mystery of CFS and provide that relief -- or even a cure. What can people with CFS (PWCs) do to strengthen their relationships with their doctors and other health care providers? Effective communication is the key. Dr. Lucinda Bateman, founder of The Fatigue Consultation Clinic in Salt Lake City, Utah, shares strategies to enhance communication with your medical team and avoid leaving the doctor's office feeling frustrated and depressed.

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• chronic fatigue syndrome
• CFS
• ME/CFS
• CFS/ME
• CFIDS
• CFIDS Association of America
• CAA

[riverlaken]

Fantastic video and thank you!!