Doctors held ‘outdated’ views about ME, inquest into sufferer’s death hears

Maeve Boothby-O’Neill, 27, died at home in Exeter in October 2021 having suffered with the illness for the previous decade.

A hospital treating a young woman suffering from chronic fatigue syndrome was warned a month before she died about the “dogma” and “outdated” views some doctors held about the debilitating condition, an inquest heard.