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==Golden Girls CFS episode == {{video|id=963WCmb2_h4 | website = youtube|description=Dorothy confronts Doctor Budd - Golden Girls: Sick and Tired}} Susan Harris wrote the '''Sick and Tired''', a two-part episode of The Golden Girls, which may have been the first representation of [[chronic fatigue syndrome]] on popular TV when it aired in 1989.<ref name="episode">{{Citation | last = Hughes | first = Terry | title = Sick and Tired: Part 2 | date =1989-09-30|url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0589813/|series=The Golden Girls|access-date=2021-12-06}}</ref> In ''Sick and Tired'', Dorothy travels from doctor to doctor to find out what was wrong with her, while continually being dismissed, ignored and made to feel as though she [[Psychologization|needs a psychiatrist instead of a physician]]. One doctor tells her she is just getting old and that maybe she should color her hair.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://michaelcavacini.com/2012/07/15/how-the-golden-girls-broke-new-ground/ | title = How The Golden Girls Broke New Ground | date = 2012-07-15 | website = Michael Cavacini|language=en|access-date=2021-12-06}}</ref> After being diagnosed with chronic fatigue syndrome, Dorothy confronts her doctor about his dismissive and unhelpful attitude to her.
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