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==Work in ME/CFS== {{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}} Dr. Speight became interested in ME/CFS from around 1984, when he was consulted by a young girl in a wheelchair who announced that she had ME, which at the time, he knew nothing about. Lectures by Dr. Betty Dowsett, Alan Franklin and Dr. [[David Bell]] helped develop his interest in the topic.<ref name="23MEGRPadvisors" /> Over the next 20 years he saw over 500 cases, all over the UK, and gave numerous lectures to medical audiences around the country on the subject.<ref name="23MEGRPadvisors" /> He served on the Chief Medical Officer’s Working Party, which reported in 2002, and on the College of Paediatrics Guidelines group. He gave evidence to the Gibson Inquiry and on three occasions talked to the ME interest group at the Scottish Parliament.<ref name="23MEGRPadvisors" /> He has worked as an honorary paediatric medical adviser for several UK ME/CFS charities, including the [[ME Association]], the [[Tymes Trust]], the [[25 Percent ME Group]], [[Action for ME]], and the [[Association of Young People with ME]]. He resigned from the latter group in 2009 when their “paths diverged”.<ref name="23MEGRPadvisors" /> Writing about his work, he has said: <blockquote>“The most distressing cases I have encountered were those in which families were being subjected to Child Protection proceedings. This was usually due to the failure of the local doctors to officially diagnose ME, or for them to diagnose it but to imply it wasn’t a real, i.e., organic condition. This left the families open to alternative explanations such as neglect, emotional abuse or Munchausen Syndrome by Proxy. I was involved in more than 20 of these cases around the country and am proud to have been instrumental in reversing the proceedings in all but a small handful.”<ref name="23MEGRPadvisors" /></blockquote>
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