The ICI Experience:

We wish getting over it was as easy as Dr. Scherger makes it sound; or as this pole vaulter makes it look! This post is a sequel to Chronic Monday: Be Well Not Medicalized 4 FM...? . I have to admit that I decided at the last minute to take it easy on Dr. S. I found a much more in-depth description of his career (on RevolutionHealth.com, who would have guessed?), and in addition to his medical degree he also has a Masters of Public Health (MPH). His first job after school was as a migrant health physician for two years in California. Now he may have had to do this to pay off a student loan or something, but still he did it. And the rest of his record seems rather stellar and exemplary. I kinda hate to drag him through the mud for one blog post, no matter how inaccurate, insensitive and insulting it is. So I'm just going to pull some sound bites out of the 25 or so comments that were made to his post and to my review of his post, all of them negative, then in a future post I...

Sequel to this post here . There's a blog post about FM on Revolution Health (copy and link at the end of this post) that has had me in a tizzy ever since I first saw it on 9/10. I originally found out about this blog post on Dominie Bush's 9/10/07 newsletter . (Thanks again, Dom, for the great job you do and have done for many years in bringing us excellent and timely info about what's going on with FM & CFS.) This is what Dominie's newsletter blurb said: HORRID FIBROMYALGIA ARTICLE A reader sent this link--outrageous!!! And by a doctor?? http://www.revolutionhealth.com/blogs/drscherger/be-well-not-medicali-6867?msc=A62775 Here's part of what he said: "If you think you have Fibromyalgia, get over it. Do not get trapped, or medicalized, into thinking you have a chronic health condition. Reduce stress, focus on your purpose in life, be positive, get restful sleep and regular exercise. You too can be well!" Good grief!!! There is a place for pos...