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Test Your Knowledge – The Second  Phoenix Rising ME/CFS Quiz (March, 2008) by Cort Johnson

PR QUIZ

1. The orthomolecular specialist Dr. Murphee wrote that ‘increasing X levels is beneficial for 95% of my patients”. What was he referring to?

2. What do Dr. Bateman, Dr. Bested and Dr. Klimas all agree is the most essential symptom to treat in chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS)?

3. In From Fatigued to Fantastic, Dr. Teitelbaum, a well known chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS) physician states that at times he uses small doses of up to how many different prescription drugs in order to get his patients to sleep?

4. Who is the one patient advocate on the CFS Federal Advisory Committee and which group does she come from?

5. Which of these prominent chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS) physicians does not a have personal connection to ME/CFS? Dr. Teitelbaum/Dr. Bateman/Dr. Chia/Dr. Friedberg

6. The Whittemore-Peterson Neuro-immune Institute is the first private/state research/education CFS institute in the U.S. Harvey and Annette Whittemore make up the Whittemore part; who does Peterson refer to?

7. Which dynamic new ME/CFS Support group got Senator Orrin Hatch to open and close one of their conferences?

8. “I Had a Mind Like a Steel Trap, and I Ended Up With a Colander for a Brain" – What CFS-like disease was this person referring to?

9. What national leader not only works on ME/CFS but also married the son of a prominent ME/CFS patient?

PHOENIX RISING QUIZ #1 (October, 2007)

(1) To what were Dr. Leonard and Jason Dr. Nancy Klimas referring to when he said "If we had twenty sites like this it would make a big difference" and she said that it was something "that absolutely has to be done?"

(2) Dr. Reeves of the CDC recently said that ME/CFS is not a disease. What did he say it was?

(3) In a remarkably direct statement which NIH official told the CFSAC that "You still have to convince the institutions of the (NIH of the) importance of this fight".

(4) Which ME/CFS website has a cat on its front page?

(5) Which co-founders of this prominent advocacy/support organization didn’t meet in person until three years after they formed the organization.

(6) What prominent ME/CFS physician has a book coming out this month?

(7) What was this prominent doctor referring to when he said "all things considered, it is the most effective treatment for severe ME/CFS that I have found in my 21 years of looking. But it has serious drawbacks and risks"

(8) What did Dr. John of the Veterans Administration’s report he says when faced with colleagues who say ‘CFS is not a disease"?

(9) What is this?  

(10) When was the last time a CFS patient was on Oprah?

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