Dr Lucy Shenton says specialist care is required for patients such as Maeve Boothby-O’Neill, who died aged 27
There needs to be properly funded research into people suffering from myalgic encephalomyelitis (ME) and specialist services for patients, a GP who treated a young woman with the condition told her inquest.
Dr Lucy Shenton said doctors needed more help to treat patients such as Maeve Boothby-O’Neill, 27, who had the condition, also known as chronic fatigue syndrome, for a decade before she died at home in October 2021.
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