Dr. Aimee (Amy) Nefcy
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802 appearances
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first heard Dec 2025
last heard 20 Dec
Dr. Aimee (Amy) Nefcy’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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But you tell patients that exercise will make you better.
It's not completely true.
You know, the UK is light years ahead of the US right now when it comes to acknowledgement of the disease and treatment of the disease.
There's a treatment guideline in their NIH guidelines for ME-CFS.
There is no such treatment guideline from the CDC.
The CDC, well, the Institute of Medicine put out a set of diagnostic criteria for ME-CFS in 2015.
So I should have been able to be diagnosed years ahead of what I had.
And I was the one that diagnosed me.
No other doctor diagnosed me because either they didn't know what was wrong with me and had no idea what CFS was when I suggested it, or they say, well, you know, I don't know about that disease.
I don't really feel comfortable.
I don't feel comfortable diagnosing you, even though there's a published set of diagnostic criteria from the Institute of Medicine sitting on the CDC website.
Well, I think that we practice defensive medicine too much.
And I see it in the ER a lot.
The ER physicians are kind of divided into two different camps.
You've got the cowboys and you've got the defensive medicine practitioners who will order every test and get a CT on every patient and do way too many LPs.
And you're like, why?
Why?
Yeah, because they might come back and sue me.
Yeah.
But, you know, I've never been sued and I've never had a patient.
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