Here is the now dated WebMD article from Feb 2015 that broke the news to the medical profession that the US Gov’t finally considered ME/CFS to be a “legitimate” illness.
On the basis of this article alone my own PCP of 4 years at the time threw in the towel and stopped mocking my condition as psychological even though for two years I had been being treated by one of the foremost ME/CFS research clinics in the WORLD run under the direction of Dr. Nancy Klimas at NOVA U. in Ft. Lauderdale.
I have a typical ME/CFS profile of suppressed neuroimmune function with reactivated HHV-4, HHV-6, Coxsackie A, and Parvovirus B19. I take 1500 mg of Valtrex per day to keep the HHV-4. Anything less renders me pseudo-demented in no time flat!
The new name suggested in the article has since been dropped and for now the ME/CFS jumble name is continuing, it seems.
I have dropped some of my sceptic ism a few years back. I suppose it was about five years ago I decided that, my skepticism not withstanding, in regard to a few things like ADD and CFS the fact that there were people whom I could help through things like trigger point injections and what not that my intellectual skepticism was irrelevant. The Oath I took did not mention anything being required of me other than alleviating suffering. If I could do that my understanding of how was not required. I still find it unsettling but that is my problem.