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Hi All, just wanted to let you know I wrote a letter to the editor of my local paper about lyme and they printed it. Here it is
I hope this has helped spread the word about this illness.
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chiquita incognita
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Bravo and well done! I think the more we write letters to the editor, the more we can raise awareness in the community.
And as awareness becomes the norm (if we all help it along with similar letters, again brava!) then there will be pressure on the health un-insurance companies to do what we pay them to do. Take care of us.
I think we also have outreach and influential power by posting to blogs. If we ask readers to seed our posts around the web, giving written reprint permission, then we can also spread word and raise awareness in this way. As readers are asked to spread word around the web, they will. They can also be asked to send our posts out in chain emails, to help spread word.
I also would like to see us raising awareness for the necessity of the removal of government over-controls in medical practice. No government entity, and no insurance company, has any business reaching into our bodies by remote control. Doctors should be free to prescribe for us as they see fit, based on individual patient needs and without strictures from the government. We may make the assumption that government controls protect us, but here is one prime example of how this illusion ends up becoming the reality of endangerment rather than protection.
This has to be stopped.
The first step is to raise public awareness about it. If we write letters and blogs in such a way as fosters critical thinking (asking questions is one way to go, rather than making statements, and appealing to common beliefs such as the assumption of "protections" which actually end up endangering us) then there will be increasing pressure on the powers that be to make changes.
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I'd be interested in your letter, however, it isn't accessible from that link any more. could you send me a copy?
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ditto... cinder, the link failed for me too
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