Frederick Wolfe

Dr. Frederick Wolfe was the director of the National Databank for Rheumatic Diseases and the lead author of the 1990 paper that first defined the diagnostic guidelines for fibromyalgia. Quotes Some of us in those days thought that we had actually identified a disease, which this clearly is notTo make people ill, to give them an illness, was the wrong thingThe fundamental problem is that the improvement that you see, which is not really great in clinical trials, is not maintained "Drug Approved. Is Disease Real?", New York Times (14 January 2008) In those with fibromyalgia there is overwhelming polysymptomatic distress, with severe pain and severe symptoms of all sortsOne doesn't either have fibromyalgia or not have itThere is a gradual transition from the mild to the severe.The point at which we classify an individual as having fibromyalgia is arbitrary, but reasonable.Fibromyalgia, therefore, is a convenient shorthand, not a disease. 19 February 2013 article Category:Physicians Category:Living people