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== Call for apologies to patients == In 2015, several doctors publicly called for the medical community to apologize to ME/CFS patients for their decades of poor treatment, including [[Jose Montoya|José Montoya]], who was then a specialist doctor and researcher at Stanford University, and [[Charles Shepherd]], medical director of the ME Association, who is also a doctor with ME. Dr Sarah Myhill has a [[Medical Abuse In ME Sufferers (MAIMES)|long-standing petition]] calling on the UK government to carry out an inquiry into the medical abuse of M.E. patients.<ref name="maimes">{{Cite web|url=https://www.drmyhill.co.uk/wiki/Medical_Abuse_In_ME_Sufferers_(MAIMES) | title = Medical Abuse In ME Sufferers (MAIMES) | last = Myhill|first = Sarah | authorlink = Sarah Myhill | date = |website=Dr Myhill|archive-url=|archive-date=|url-status=|access-date=2020-10-31}}</ref> A number of researchers who promote the [[biopsychosocial model]] of ME/CFS have been described as gaslighting ME/CFS patients and [[Intimidation and bullying of PACE trial critics|intimidating ME/CFS advocates]],<ref name="Propaganda" /><ref name="Tuller20201020" /><ref name="SharpeTweet" /><ref name="Hughes2019">{{Cite web|url=https://thesciencebit.net/2019/03/21/if-you-spend-20-years-gaslighting-your-patients-perhaps-you-should-think-twice-before-accusing-them-of-trolling-you/ | title = If you spend 20 years gaslighting your patients, perhaps you should think twice before accusing *them* of trolling *you* | last = Hughes | first = Brian | authorlink=Brian Hughes | date = 2019-03-21 | website = The Science Bit|language=en-US|archive-url=|archive-date=|url-status=|access-date=2020-10-24}}</ref> and research has shown that health professionals routinely suggest or provide inappropriate and harmful treatments,<ref name="BleaseGeraghty2016a" /><ref name="McManimen2019" /> wrongly suggest that a patient's ME/CFS symptoms result only from psychological factors or from a mental health condition such as [[depression]], [[anxiety]], or somatization, or treat patients as if their symptoms are in some way "all in their head"—regardless of the symptoms or history that the patient has.<ref name="McManimen2019" /><ref name="NewtonDisbelief">{{Cite web|url=http://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/810602 | title = A Narrative Review of the Impact of Disbelief in Chronic Pain | last = Benjamin J. | first = Newton | authorlink= | last2 = Southall | first2 = Jane L. | authorlink2 = | date = 2013 | website = |pages=161-171|archive-url=|archive-date=|url-status=|access-date= | last3 = Raphael | first3 = Jon H. | last4 = Ashford | first4 = Robert L. | last5 = LeMarchand | first5 = Karen|journal=Pain Manag Nurs|volume=14|issue=3}}</ref><ref name="mentalhealthmovement" /><ref name="Disdain" />
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