need help with addressRe: NY MAG LETTER

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HELP! i can't find where you send your letters to the editor. lyme

fog is heavy, vertigo, etc.

i just keep clicking and clicking and can't figure it out!

thanks,

kay

> My letter to NY Magazine....please write yours!!!! Happy (Maine)

> <A HREF= " http://newyorkmag.com/page.cfm?page_id=3323 " >

> Best Doctors 2000: Special Focus (06/05/00)</A>

> http://newyorkmag.com/page.cfm?page_id=3323

>

>

> Subj: LYME DISEASE....BEST DOCTORS

> Date: 5/31/2000 9:16:29 AM Eastern Daylight Time

> From: HapsQuilt

> NYLetters@p...

>

> Dear Editor,

> I must tell you I am very shocked to see your " story " regarding

Best Doctors

> 2000: Special Focus (Lyme Disease)!!! This is obviously the work of

the ALDF

> in response to the Feb. 28, 2000 article by Rusty Unger

titled " Germ

> Warfare " . That was a wonderful article describing the conflict

within the

> medical community about the treatment of lyme disease. The " best

doctors "

> you list in todays article are those described by Mr. Unger as.....

> Quote

> " In one corner is a group of those predominantly university-based

physicians

> who develop drugs, receive research grants from federal health

agencies, and

> often advise insurance companies. They contend that Lyme is usually

simple to

> diagnose and easily curable with two to four weeks of oral

antibiotics.

> Chronic Lyme, they say, is extremely rare, not a disease but merely

a group

> of symptoms remaining after the initial infection is treated that

usually

> disperse. " Unquote.

> Unfortunately, there are thousands of undiagnosed and untreated

patients

> whose lives have been ruined by the likes of these physicians. Why

are these

> medical conflicts being argued in news magazines? Why are these

physicians

> not working for the good of the people? Why are

> the primary care physicians of this world not asking the

academicians why

> their patients are so sick, not getting better with short-term

antibiotics,

> and are doing better with antibiotics? Sending sick patients to

doctors who

> inadequately treat lyme disease is worse than a death

sentence.....because

> " living " with Late Diseminated Neuroborreliosis is worse than being

dead. It

> is costly....not to the insurance companies that pay some of these

> consultants....but to states and our country in the way of lost

income, SSDI,

> and longterm care that does nothing to improve ones health and make

them at

> least functional if not well.

> No one knows the cure for late Lyme Disease, and at this rate we

never

> will!!!

> (signed)