PATIENTS IN JEOPARDY

[Guest guest]

LYME DISEASE PATIENTS: YOUR ACCESS TO EFFECTIVE CARE

IS IN JEOPARDY

Two of the most prominent physicians in the treatment

of chronic Lyme

disease, Dr. ph Burrascano and Dr.

Horowitz are currently

being unjustly tried by the Office of Professional

Medical Conduct

(OPMC), the medical licensing arm of the New York

State Department of

Health.

Both Dr. Burrascano and Dr. Horowitz are at risk of

losing their

licenses to practice medicine essentially because of

their willingness

to offer aggressive treatment to chronic Lyme disease

patients.

They are being tried by an OPMC that has stated in

writing that they

believe that Lyme disease is almost always cured by 3

weeks of

antibiotics!

If the OPMC is permitted to go ahead with these trials

and take the

licenses from these doctors, it will have a chilling

effect on the

medical climate throughout the country, with most Lyme

patients losing

their access to effective care.

YOUR HELP IS URGENTLY NEEDED:

1) LEGAL DEFENSE FUNDS: Financial contributions are

urgently needed

to provide the best possible legal defense for these

physicians.

For contributions to Dr. Horowitz's Legal Defense

Fund, please mail

to:

Horowitz Legal Defense Fund

c/o

PO Box 410

Kinderhook, NY 12106

Contributions for Dr. Burrascano should be mailed to;

Burrascano Legal Defense Fund

c/o

PO Box 410

Kinderhook, NY 12106

2) LOBBY DAY: If you are a New York State resident,

or if you are

being treated for Lyme disease by a New York State

physician, it is

essential that you attend

Lobby Day on March 27th. New Yorkers will travel to

Albany to attend

a

teach in and to meet with legislators to advocate

for:

---- Legislative hearings to investigate the bias of

the OPMC in

regard to Lyme disease physicians AND a MORATORIUM on

the OPMC's

action against the Lyme doctors until such hearings

can be held.

---- Reform of the laws governing the OPMC which have

permitted them

to use their police power to enforce bias and violate

patient's

rights to treatment choice.

We need large numbers of Lyme disease patients, family

and friends in

order to show our legislators that this is an

important New York State

issue. If you live in New York State or are treated

by a Lyme disease

physician in New York State, please sign up with:

a) Sue at SSchr32899@a... or 413-247-5884.

(After 3/18/01) Joan at JGreen1471@a... or

212-932-0359

Thanks,

Voices of Lyme

Voices of Lyme is a grassroots organization of Lyme

disease patients.

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