A woman with ME wrote to her GP pleading for help to “get enough food to live” and expressing despair at not getting the care she felt she needed when she was admitted to hospital, an inquest heard.
Maeve Boothby O’Neill, who had severe ME/CFS (myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome) for several years, was admitted three times to the Royal Devon and Exeter hospital but felt doctors there did not take her illness seriously.
