Thanks for posting this, CP. I was just about to do just that.
Andie
Posted by sideways (Member # 34352) on :
The comment by that so called "doctor" pi$$es me off. Someone needs to set that arrogant, sanctimonious IDSA lemming straight.
Posted by Keebler (Member # 12673) on :
- Time after time, NYT "medical" writers (I cannot call them journalists) are uneducated about the full scope of lyme, TBD, research or the doctors who are blazing trails.
At least there were a few good points here but I rely on the NYT to do a better job. They always fail with lyme. I would not give a passing grade to the "report" because it is not inclusive enough.
And, really, when you say that someone is NOT a hypochondric, whiner, couch potato, etc. then that label does still tend to stick in readers' minds. It's a sneaky tactic.
Then to always end with the old IDSA mantra does a huge disservice to all readers. They THINK the reporter has done a full investigation when that is not at all the truth of it.
They did not even interview any ILADS member, it seems. Never did see the read research - they seem to have stopped with the JAMA and NEJM. -
Posted by Jessiep (Member # 35399) on :
I agree could have been more balanced BUT it was better than past articles. I feel like the general tone about TBDs is changing. Slowly, albeit, but still changing for the better. Earlier articles were about the quacks that treated lyme patients. This is an improvement certainly.
Posted by Jessiep (Member # 35399) on :
I agree could have been more balanced BUT it was better than past articles. I feel like the general tone about TBDs is changing. Slowly, albeit, but still changing for the better. Earlier articles were about the quacks that treated lyme patients. This is an improvement certainly.
Posted by poppy (Member # 5355) on :
Was this actually printed in the paper or is this just some online blog that fewer people will read?
I had trouble reading it after seeing the word controversial again for the ten thousandth time, and then the word lyme "specialist" in quotation marks This is a bad sign and I know already how it is going to be spun.
Posted by Keebler (Member # 12673) on :
- My ND had to call me about an Rx this morning and she had seen this just as her regular morning NYT reading. She thought I'd want to know.
Not sure if it's in their paper paper. This "blog" does appear as a regular article and link in their on-line edition. The "blog" is just more of a column, really a regular health feature of various topics -- not a true blog link (as we think of blogs) as it always has a prominent place on their main news page.
It may rotate, though. I saw it on their main face page earlier today but now, there are others. When one clicks on their "Health" section, it's there, though.
This link may also show up on the right side of the face page. I see that happen a lot throughout the day, they rotate often so I see lots of repeats for days after the initial post date. -
Posted by treeinatree (Member # 38613) on :
Jane Brody, you can do better than that. Though, she was the one who was telling us all to eat lots and lots of grains in the 80s....
Posted by Keebler (Member # 12673) on :
- Over 150 reader comments - of those few I could sort through, most know far more about this topic than the writer. Good to see a few ILADS links but sad to see some commenting that they are ill, suspect lyme but can't find a doctor as they've been dismissed time and again. -
Posted by Abxnomore (Member # 18936) on :
So true about Jane Brody selling us a diet full of grains and carbs in the 1980's. What a disaster that was. This article is fair at best but at least it's being discussed.
Recently, there was that article in The New Yorker, as well.