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==Doctors describe abuse and neglect== {{Video|id=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kl5EfvzsL88|service=youtube|dimensions=550|description=Dr. Nigel Speight on Paediatric ME/CFS (2014). Stockholm, Sweden.|alignment=right|urlargs=start=20&rel=0&autoplay=0}} In 2014, Dr [[Nigel Speight]], a British pediatrician, gave an invited presentation, '''Very Severe - Why Are Patients neglected and Abused?''' about the medical abuse and neglect of ME/CFS patients at the annual conference of the UK charity [[Invest in ME Research]].<ref name="Speightpres">{{Cite web|url = http://www.investinme.org/Documents/Newsletters/Invest%20in%20ME%20August%20Newsletter%202014.pdf | last=Invest in ME Research | authorlink = Invest in ME Research | title = NEWSLETTER AUGUST 2014 | date = Aug 2014}}</ref> In the same year, Dr Speight also gave a presentation on pediatric ME/CFS in [[Sweden]], during which he described some of the cases of abuse by medical professionals that he was aware of.<ref name="SpeightSweden">{{Cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kl5EfvzsL88|first = Nigel | last = Speight | authorlink = Nigel Speight | title = Dr Nigel Speight on Paediatric ME/CFS| date = 2014 |location=Stockholm, Sweden|website=YouTube}}</ref> ===MAIMES petition=== In 2017, Dr [[Sarah Myhill]], a British doctor specializing in M.E. created the [[Medical Abuse In ME Sufferers (MAIMES)]] petition to call for an UK public inquiry into the abusive medical treatment suffered by patients with M.E., and to call for this to end.<ref name="MAIMESpost">{{Cite web|url=https://www.healthrising.org/forums/threads/maimes-medical-abuse-of-mes-the-time-has-come-to-end-the-abuse.5543/ | title = MAIMES (Medical Abuse Of MEβs) The Time Has Come To End The Abuse|publisher=Health Rising | date = Aug 27, 2017 | author-link = | last = Pike | first = }}</ref><ref name="MAIMESvideo">{{Cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LasPOnRx1Ek | title = Stop The Abuse - Dr. Myhill On PACE Exposed|publisher=Life The Basic Manual | date = Oct 19, 2017 | author-link = Sarah Myhill | last = Myhill | first = Sarah}}</ref> By late 2021, the MAIMES petitions had been signed by over 20 UK Members of Parliament.<ref name="MAIMESweb">{{Cite web|url=http://drmyhill.co.uk/wiki/Medical_Abuse_In_ME_Sufferers_(MAIMES) | title = Medical Abuse of ME Sufferers (MAIMES)|access-date=Oct 20, 2021 | author-link = Sarah Myhill | last = Myhill | first = Sarah}}</ref>
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