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My sister in law sent me a great review for Under Our Skin from the LA times. It's a scanned copy and beyond my ability to post here. Maybe someone can find a link to the newspaper???
Today's a big day with openings in many cities. Be as active as your abilities allow.
I'll post follow ups regarding San Diego's turnout ths evening.
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Abxnomore
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Parisa, I think this is it.
Lyme disease eye-opener
Lyme disease doesn't sound like the sexiest topic for a documentary, but as "Under Our Skin" proves, it's clearly a subject in desperate need of director Andy Abrahams Wilson's vigilant
dissection. Wilson, who also did nice work as the film's cinematographer, offers an exhaustive look
at the epidemical, tick-borne illness whose political and economic ramifications have reached startling proportions.
This eye-opening movie contends that insurance companies have conspired with factions of the medical community to brand Lyme disease a
short-term, easily treatable illness, one that might not even really exist. That debatable
diagnosis, advanced by the Infectious Diseases Society of America, protects insurers against covering the extended treatment that "Lyme-
literate" doctors deem that the disabling, potentially chronic, sometimes fatal infection can require.
Meanwhile, each year thousands of Lyme disease victims, many of whom are profiled here, become sicker and poorer.
"Under Our Skin" is frightening, powerful stuff.
-- Gary Goldstein "Under Our Skin." MPAA rating: Unrated. Running time: 1 hour, 43 minutes. At Laemmle's Music Hall, Beverly Hills.
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