Erlend Hem & Jon Håvard Loge refutes the language gap in this Journal no. 18/2004 our argument that “chronic exhaustion syndrome” should be the Norwegian term for “chronic fatigue syndrome” ( 1 , 2 ). In his speech, they write that “many patients with somatic diseases and fatigue would probably feel somewhat alien to mention symptom as fatigue, because fatigue usually linked to a prior activity” ( 2 ).
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Source: Wyller VB, Wyller TB. Exhaustion–not fatigue. Tidsskr Nor Laegeforen. 2004 Nov 4;124(21):2802; author reply 2802. [Article in Norwegian] http://tidsskriftet.no/article/1095666 (Full article)