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This whole idea is so cool! I keep checking back and finding more to read. And if you click on the names, you can see a thumbnail description and sometimes a photo of the author.
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- wortman,
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Posted by Ann-Ohio (Member # 44364) on :
One of the best is hard to read, as the whole thing is one solid block of print. Here it is in more readable form.
Fear of having made mistakes
Suzanne Fratus Retired, California
Mistakes are a four letter word in the medical profession. They are feared, they are covered up, they are defended at all costs.
Just think of how many people have suffered and died due to a doctor's failure to diagnose and treat tick borne diseases in a timely and adequate manner. Everybody makes mistakes.
But the biggest mistake is to fail to admit, apologize, and make amends for your failures. Everybody makes mistakes. Let's just start there.
Treating physicians fear malpractice litigation and loss of their license to practice medicine. Academics fear failure to reach tenure, failure to have their research funded, failure to get their articles reviewed and published by their peers.
The pecking order was clear and lines drawn from the very first day in the fields of Lyme CT. If Dr. X was right, then Dr Y was wrong. Everybody wanted to be right of course. Nobody wanted to be wrong ever.
It was just too costly for medical doctors and researchers to admit mistakes or failures they made. They wanted it to be their newly discovered USA disease. (It took years to acknowledge previous foreign doctors published work). They wanted it to be their USA discovery of the cause.
How dare an immigrant be the one to discover the cause. And what an affront to their ego that his name was attached to the organism.
And why was it named Lyme disease? That ruined property values, and ignored the work done by first responder researchers. At least they could have named the disease after one of them!
Fear, Ego,Competition these are a lethal combination.
Unfortunately patients are being killed by friendly fire. Interestingly, the old guard is attacking the very things they themselves most fear losing their license to practice medicine, their access to publication of their research, funding for their grants etc.
As Tom Cruise said " follow the money". If you want the Lyme wars to stop you have to cut out the financial incentive that fuels them.
Legal amnesty for those doctors who missed a tick borne disease (TBD) diagnosis prior to the year 2014.
A trust fund to be used for medical treatment of TBD victims.
New licensing laws requiring all medical personnel to complete a ten day course on TBDs in order to renew their license
A new board certified in TBD category speciality
Enforced testing of the blood supply for TBD's
Disclosure to all receiving blood or organ donations
Yearly TBD testing of school aged children
Funding for education about TBDs in all schools
A nationwide clearing house for all TBD grants.
New disclosure laws requiring all doctors and researchers to disclose source of all money received
[ 04-26-2015, 04:03 PM: Message edited by: Ann-Ohio ]
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