Frederick Wolfe

"Some of us in those days thought that we had actually identified a disease, which this clearly is not To make people ill, to give them an illness, was the wrong thing The fundamental problem is that the improvement that you see, which is not really great in clinical trials, is not maintained"

"In those with fibromyalgia there is overwhelming polysymptomatic distress, with severe pain and severe symptoms of all sorts One doesn't either have fibromyalgia or not have it There 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."