Guest guest Posted November 25, 1999 Report Share Posted November 25, 1999 Excellent letter, Reid. Are you sendng it to more than one publication? Take care, Joan LI NY Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted November 25, 1999 Report Share Posted November 25, 1999 Great letter Reid, and you used your spell check!!! I am kidding you, I love your letters to the group. I will write mine tomorrow, I plan to spend all day sending out as many as I can, Hugs, Marta >From: RMcmur3194@... > >to the editor > While I am cautiously happy and optimistic about the new test that have >been developed for the diagnoses of Lyme Disease. I am concerned whether it >will now change the trend of what is becoming the biggest problem for those >of us who suffer from the effects of this dreaded disease. The persecution >and censuring of doctors who aggressively treat Lyme. > Just this past week, a doctor well known in Lyme circles in the >Tri-State area had his license to practice medicine revoked after 40 years >for " the overtreatment and over diagnoses of Lyme Disease. My own " Lyme >Literate " Doctor moved his practice from the state Of New Jersey 4 years ago >due to the politics of treating and reporting Lyme in this State. He no >longer reports cases of Lyme Disease to the CDC or State > that he now practices in due to fear of persecution. > One of the reasons for this fear is that a group of self proclaimed " >lyme experts " one who was just honored as " astute " by the NIH in conjunction >with and backed by large Insurance Companies continue to perpetrate the >theory that Lyme is " an easily treated disease " cured by a 21-28 day course >of Antibitotics. If you are not cured by after this treatment " you must not >have Lyme " . while short term Antibiotic treatment may cure people in the >early stages of this disease, the hard cold reality is that few cases are >caught early due to lack of accurate testing and the fear of doctors to make >a " clinical diagnoses " . > If an oncologist diagnoses and treats numerous cases of cancer is his >license in jeopardy? Why then must Lyme treating doctors " go underground >their names closely guarded by the patients that they treat? > Lyme is now the fastest growing epidemic illness in the Northeast far >outpacing AIDS/HIV yet we are losing treating doctors through fear for their >Medical License's. I challenge the Media and The politicians to honestly >investigate this situation. Not being swayed by the money thrown around by >the insurance industry who is looking at the bottom line. Short Term >Treatment for Lyme is Cheaper than long term. But what is best for the person >suffering? We now have a medical system that is good for the companies yet >poor for the patients. > > >Reid McMurray >42 Fox Hill Rd. >Denville,NJ,07834 >973-627-0345 > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted November 26, 1999 Report Share Posted November 26, 1999 yes i have sent it to the two largest papers in the state........heard from the star ledger today .....they are going to run it state wide........maybe it will shake something loose .....i hope so Reid Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted November 26, 1999 Report Share Posted November 26, 1999 yes marta.....when i write " out " i spell check .....sorry i don't do it with the group ....if i did it would take for ever and i think u all get the meaning anyway......most of the time it is that my fingers don't work to well.....or my brain sometimes....lol....Reid Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted November 29, 1999 Report Share Posted November 29, 1999 Reid, I do hope you know I was kidding, I love your letters to our list just the way they are, and if you ever use spell check for them I will be angry! By the way, let us know when the article comes out in the Star Ledger, Huge Hugs, Marta >From: RMcmur3194@... > >yes marta.....when i write " out " i spell check .....sorry i don't do it with >the group ....if i did it would take for ever and i think u all get the >meaning anyway......most of the time it is that my fingers don't work to >well.....or my brain sometimes....lol....Reid Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted November 29, 1999 Report Share Posted November 29, 1999 knew u were joking marta........my misspellings give the old lymebrain somrething to think about..... Reid Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted November 29, 1999 Report Share Posted November 29, 1999 knew u were joking marta........my misspellings give the old lymebrain somrething to think about..... Reid Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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