“Because doctors can’t name the illness, everyone—the patient's family, friends, health insurance, and in many cases the patient—comes to think of the patient as not really sick and not really suffering. What the patient comes to require in these circumstances, in the absence of help, are facts—tests and studies that show that they might “in fact” have something.” Chronic IllnessChronic Fatigue SyndromeMyalgic EncephalomyelitisMedical ProfessionMedical ResearchInvisible IllnessM E CfsChronic Illness StigmaMedical ModelMedically Unexplained Symptoms Author:Joseph Dumit