A Doctor's Journey Back to Health - Softcover

Sommer, Steven J

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0995434530 ISBN 13: 9780995434530

Publisher: Steven Sommer, 2022

Synopsis

From doctor to patient to doctor again, Dr Steven Sommer's uplifting story is told alongside the story of Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (ME/CFS). Steven's life and career was soaring with potential before it was derailed by ME/CFS. Steven and his partner, Tori, unveil the horrors of what it was like to have this disease as he shares his search for answers, a quest that culminates in a joyous turn-around.

Interwoven, is the fascinating medical research that's blowing the hat off our understanding of this oft-maligned illness. It exposes and verifies that ME/CFS is truly a biomedical disease not a psychiatric one.

Currently, close to two hundred and fifty thousand Australians and millions of people worldwide are impacted by ME/CFS. This number is likely to swell as a percentage of people with Long Covid go on to develop ME/CFS.

In the follow-up companion book, A Path Back to Life, Steven provides a management approach, he calls Micro-Rehab, that gives hope and practical guidance to those who need it.

About this title

About the Author

Steven has worked as a GP and medical school senior lecturer at Monash and Deakin Universities, Melbourne, Australia.He was also the President of the non-profit educational organisation, the Whole Health Institute of Australasia (1993-1996). Having recovered from ME/CFS, after 11 years of debility, Steven ran a GP clinic exclusively to assist people with ME/CFS from 2007-11. In 2019 Steven was invited and joined the inaugural Medical Advisory Committee for Emerge (ME/CFS) Australia.

Edition details

• Publisher: Steven Sommer
• Publication date: 2022
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0995434530
• ISBN 13: 9780995434530
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 220