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==ME/CFS== {{Image frame|caption=<span style="font-weight:bold;font-size:120%">ME/CFS patients who have experienced a dismissive attitude from a health care professional.</span><span style ="font-size:80%"><br> Source: Health Care Women Int. 2019 Mar; 40(3): 241β258.<ref name="McManimen2019"/></span>| content={{Graph:Chart|width=400|height=|type=rect|xAxisTitle=Have experienced a dismissive attitude from a health care professional|yAxisTitle=% of patients with ME/CFS|legend=Legend|x=1|y1=89.1|y2=10.9|y1Title=Yes|y2Title=No| |colors={{MEActionRed}},{{MEActionBlue}}|xAxisAngle=}} }} People with [[ME/CFS]] typically experience healthcare professionals who dismiss or ignore their health problems,<ref name="Lapp2019">{{Cite journal | last = Lapp|first = Charles W. | authorlink = Charles Lapp | date = 2019 | title=Initiating Care of a Patient With Myalgic Encephalomyelitis/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (ME/CFS)|url=https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fped.2018.00415/full|journal=Frontiers in Pediatrics|language=English|volume=6|issue=|pages=|doi=10.3389/fped.2018.00415|issn=2296-2360|pmc=|pmid=|access-date=|quote=|via=}}</ref> or attribute their ME/CFS symptoms as coming from a psychological rather than physical cause, leading to inappropriate treatments, such as focusing patients'[[Illness beliefs|"beliefs about the illness"]] rather than medical treatment of the symptoms.<ref name="BleaseGeraghty2016a" /><ref name="McManimen2019" /><ref name="Agardy2017">{{Cite journal | last = Agardy|first = Susanna | authorlink = | date = Aug 2017 | title = Chronic fatigue syndrome patients have no reason to accept the PACE trial results: Response to Keith J Petrie and John Weinman | url =http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/1359105317715476|journal=Journal of Health Psychology|language=en|volume=22|issue=9|pages=1206β1208|doi=10.1177/1359105317715476|issn=1359-1053|pmc=|pmid=|access-date=|quote=|via=}}</ref><ref name="Propaganda">{{Cite web|url=http://www.margaretwilliams.me/2017/power-of-propaganda.pdf | title=The Power of Propaganda? | last = Williams | first = Margaret | authorlink=Margaret Williams | date = Mar 2017 | website = |archive-url=|archive-date=|url-status=|access-date=Oct 31, 2020}}</ref> Some doctors have also made claims that patients are not ''really'' sick, or have tried to discredit them by suggesting they are exaggerating the extent of their illness.<ref name="SharpeTweet">{{Cite web|url=https://www.virology.ws/2018/11/08/trial-by-error-an-australian-exchange-with-professor-sharpe/ | title = Trial By Error: An Australian Exchange with Professor Sharpe | last = Tuller | first = David | authorlink = David Tuller | date = Nov 8, 2018 | website = [[Virology blog]]|archive-url=|archive-date=|url-status=|access-date=2020-10-31}}</ref>
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