Dr. Aimee (Amy) Nefcy

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The Neurotransmitters: Clinical Neurology Education · Beyond Tired: Understanding ME/CFS · 20 Dec 2025 podcast

But I know that it falls under the umbrella.

of the diseases that I do have.

So yeah, it changes my perspective.

And I think that the first reaction should be to believe patients.

But the thing that I got overwhelmingly from my residency, I was taught, this is how I was taught, was to not believe patients.

We don't believe them.

We assume that they're drug seeking.

We assume that they're malingering.

We assume that there's secondary gain.

Why do we do that?

Why are we so suspicious?

But again, you don't have to come up with a diagnosis for patients.

But when you believe them, when you validate them, you know, I've treated a delusional parasitosis in the ER.

They come into the ER.

with their little matchboxes, the positive matchbox sign, right?

And they come in and they've seen so many physicians and they get blown off.

And they come in expecting to be blown off yet again.

But the best thing you can do for them, and this is what's taught now about delusional parasitosis and how to get these people effective treatment, is to first validate their concerns.

You don't frame it in terms of,

I believe that you have a parasite under your skin.

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