Borrowing and Holding Onto Hope: A Journey Through Long COVID and ME/CFS Living with Long COVID and ME/CFS means facing uncertainty, loss, and often, unimaginable suffering. But it also means discovering resilience in ways few can understand. One patient’s story...
**Trigger Warning. This poem may be difficult to read for some individuals. Please take care. Here is a link to BHC’s Crisis Resources page.** Slowly Dying I’m on earth, and I no longer feel like I’m living; instead, I’m slowly dying....
**Trigger Warning: Chronic Illness** “Don’t Irritate the Invisible Beast!” Morning birds awake my unrefreshed insomnia ladened eyes as another day has begun. A glimmer of hope flashes through my mind, what if today the Invisible Beast has left...
Being a Long COVID Warrior myself, I wanted to tell my story as well as millions around the world who have never felt well after contracting COVID-19. Many are being diagnosed with ME/CFS, dysautonomia, fibromyalgia and other post-viral illnesses. The weight we feel...
Lucinda Bateman, MD, is a renowned clinician, researcher, and educator. Her Johns Hopkins University Medical School training instilled an approach to care that she has employed throughout her career - the patient comes first and the unknown or unexplained does not equate to a lack of proper and compassionate care. Since starting her own practice in 2000, she has served on six boards or committees, been the principal investigator for 45 studies, authored/coauthored 40 journal articles, served as adjunct instructor and adjunct assistant professor in the University of Utah Departments of Preventative Medicine, Internal Medicine, and Anesthesiology, and lectured around the world. Bateman served as a clinical expert on the 2015 IOM/NAM committee, contributing her expertise in the development of the clinical diagnostic criteria for ME/CFS, a pivotal and influential moment for all clinicians, researchers, and patients. Medical and scientific collaborations include work with Stanford, Columbia, Cornell, Harvard, CDC, NIH, RECOVER Initiative, Riken, and she is the co-founder of the U.S. ME/CFS Clinician Coalition. In 2015 she expanded her impact by combining her private clinical and research practice with its sister non-profit, OFFER, to create a medical center of excellence, BHC, dedicated to the diagnosis, management, research, and education for the benefit of individuals impacted by msCCD. Her passion for increasing access to informed medical care fuels her focus on medical education today.
Lucinda Bateman, MD, is a renowned clinician, researcher, and educator. Her Johns Hopkins University Medical School training instilled an approach to care that she has employed throughout her career - the patient comes first and the unknown or unexplained does not equate to a lack of proper and compassionate care. Since starting her own practice in 2000, she has served on six boards or committees, been the principal investigator for 45 studies, authored/coauthored 40 journal articles, served as adjunct instructor and adjunct assistant professor in the University of Utah Departments of Preventative Medicine, Internal Medicine, and Anesthesiology, and lectured around the world.
Bateman served as a clinical expert on the 2015 IOM/NAM committee, contributing her expertise in the development of the clinical diagnostic criteria for ME/CFS, a pivotal and influential moment for all clinicians, researchers, and patients. Medical and scientific collaborations include work with Stanford, Columbia, Cornell, Harvard, CDC, NIH, RECOVER Initiative, Riken, and she is the co-founder of the U.S. ME/CFS Clinician Coalition.
In 2015 she expanded her impact by combining her private clinical and research practice with its sister non-profit, OFFER, to create a medical center of excellence, BHC, dedicated to the diagnosis, management, research, and education for the benefit of individuals impacted by msCCD. Her passion for increasing access to informed medical care fuels her focus on medical education today. Read her full bio here.Â
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Lucinda Bateman, MD, is a renowned clinician, researcher, and educator. Her Johns Hopkins University Medical School training instilled an approach to care that she has employed throughout her career - the patient comes first and the unknown or unexplained does not equate to a lack of proper and compassionate care. Since starting her own practice in 2000, she has served on six boards or committees, been the principal investigator for 45 studies, authored/coauthored 40 journal articles, served as adjunct instructor and adjunct assistant professor in the University of Utah Departments of Preventative Medicine, Internal Medicine, and Anesthesiology, and lectured around the world.