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{{NeedsImage}} {{stub}}'''Ville Valtonen''' is a professor and specialist in infectious diseases. He is retired from practice on the public sector but still sees patients privately. He was the first better-known Finnish doctor who became interested in CFS/ME, some time in the early 2000s. He used to be the chief physician at the infectious disease clinic of Helsinki university hospital. For some years this was the only place in Finland that treated CFS/ME. Valtonen used to run fairly thorough testing to exclude other illnesses, especially infections, immune deficiencies and common autoimmune causes, as well as running imaging studies. Almost every CFS/ME patient was recommended to take [[prednisone]] and [[doxycycline]]. Some were also given [[IVIG]] and [[valaciclovir]]. Valtonen is also known for treating chronic [[Lyme disease]], [[mold illness]] and [[multiple chemical sensitivity]] and discussing those subjects in the media. Since Valtonen's retirement the infectious disease clinic first started recommending [[exercise]] and [[CBT]] and later has stopped accepting referrals for CFS/ME altogether. Peculiarly, based on his 2015 presentation at a Finnish sleep medicine seminar, Valtonen believes that taking walks outside in "fresh air" is a good treatment for CFS/ME and that CFS/ME often spontaneously remits. The walks may indeed be a good recommendation for some of the mold/MCS patients that he treats, but not for CFS/ME. After his retirement Ville Valtonen has regularly produced scathing commentary in interviews about the sorry state of [[disability benefits]] in Finland. Tens of thousands of disabled peple are unable to get benefits because their diagnosis (such as CFS/ME or mold illness) is not accepted. Valtonen caused a small scandal with the comments he made in a documentary film about mold illness called ''Kanarialinnut'' (''The Canaries''), which was aired by the Finnish national broadcasting company Yle. He referred to insurance doctors as scum and when asked how they should be dealt with, he dryly suggested they could be shot. This comment was censored from the film after its TV premiere, when it was made available for watching on the broadcasting company's website. [[Category:Clinicians]] [[Category: Finnish clinicians]]
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