if you have an opposing opinion you'd like to share
Posted by Lymetoo (Member # 743) on :
AHHH... an email address!! Posted by chastain (Member # 34236) on :
Email sent!! Thank you for posting it!! We all need to make our voices heard!! Jess.
Posted by Keebler (Member # 12673) on :
- Most IDSA dyed-in-the-wool "experts" won't listen. -
Posted by chastain (Member # 34236) on :
I think it does all of us good to fight though, Keebler. And sending an email of protestation to someone who is so clearly wrong on this issue is a way to do that. You can never hope to change anyone or anything if you keep silent. I am learning this more and more everyday. Jess.
Posted by Keebler (Member # 12673) on :
- I hope you can send a letter to the editor, and their boss, too.
The thing about giving one's name to a IDSA doctor, it could pose a security risk of sorts regarding insurance coverage, etc.
I never want any IDSA doctor to have my personal email address. -
Posted by outerspace1226 (Member # 34274) on :
This is a Harvard Medical professor, who is teaching thousands of other future medical professionals. I think it's important he hears an opposing point of view from real patients. Especially since they can't do anything with an email address.
Lyme is attached to our names regardless if we try to hide it. Even seeing an LLMD and paying cash, we'd be naive to think we are flying under the radar.
Please send this guy a polite quick email.
Posted by Lymetoo (Member # 743) on :
Get a new email address to use for these purposes. At least they wouldn't have your real address.
Posted by lpkayak (Member # 5230) on :
so is the idsa saying ticks jump now...sorry. this is so ridiculous...but i know it is serious too.
Posted by AuntyLynn (Member # 35938) on :
Hey I saw this article on another Lyme support site, and used the "Asked Dr. K" format to set him straight, saying the person who posted his article said: "Can you count the mistakes?"
The guy's a complete idiot when it comes to Lyme! And a Harvard Medical School Professor YET!
I told him, in a very professional way, that Lyme illiteracy in the medical community is a big part of our problem. Gave him a link to Under Our Skin, and ILADs, and invited him to attend the November conference in Boston.
Said I hoped he would join the fight against this "growing epidemic."
Posted by outerspace1226 (Member # 34274) on :
Thank You Aunty!!!!!
Posted by AuntyLynn (Member # 35938) on :
My pleasure. Let's see if he has the stones to respond.
Posted by outerspace1226 (Member # 34274) on :
Well we know he'll get it because of his automated response that he'll be back Monday and return emails. I doubt he will. BUT he will read them and that's all that matters.
We can't expect him to change his curriculum, but we can plant a seed of doubt in his head. Maybe someday he will realize he's indirectly destroying lives.
Posted by outerspace1226 (Member # 34274) on :
They aren't going to do anything with your email address. The notion that the IDSA, and the doctors that treat by their guidelines, are out to get us is false. They just aren't willing to help.
Posted by Robin123 (Member # 9197) on :
Since the November conference is in Boston, I'd love to see them do some outreach to any medical schools there, including this ignorant doctor -
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