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FYI to Jemsek patients. I did ask over the phone about the situation. I was told that Dr.J has hired a 'spokesperson' who will call back patients & answer any questions. They took my name & number & said I would hear within 24 hours from the spokesperson. I didn't. However, being so close to the holidays, I decided to let it be & bother them after the holidays.
I believe as patients we do have a right to ask, and the nurse was very up front about it all.
Let us all pray for Dr.J. Posts: 58 | From Leonardtown, Md, usa | Registered: May 2003
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WOW! I am so bummed!I have researched lyme for my mother for several years and we're now down to the point of actually getting an appointment with Dr. J. My mother was diagnosed with MS and is completely bedridden. I pray that Dr. Jemsek wins. If there's any way I can help, someone please email me.
-------------------- The best index to a person's character is how he treats people who can't do him any good, and how he treats people who can't fight back. -Abigail van Buren (Pauline Esther Friedman) (1918-2002) Posts: 409 | From Florida | Registered: Dec 2005
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I actually read all of my records from the beginning of my treatment from Dr. J. and I have to say, I have never had a doctor or practice that took more maticulous notes and took so many different aspects of my care into consideration. I notice that when I first went to see him, he spent two hours with me and did many different blood tests - nothing i need to tell any of you all. I was so sick when I went to him three years ago that I barely remember that first year, however, I do remember that when I first went in, the would not start my treatment until they got my IGENEX lab results back.
I don't think we really need to worry too much about Dr. J. He is an extremely intelligent and well-respected man. The medical board may do many of several things: 1. nothing; 2. a slap on the wrist; 3. a fine; suspend his license for 3 to 6 months, but I doubt that he will lose his license. He and his staff are too professional for this to happen. After going to so many other doctors who barely look at you or take any notes at all, I can't imagine he isn't all over these five cases that are haunting him right now.
The medical community does not understand the theory of being on antibiotics for a long time, and I actually was afraid of it myself. HOwever, I have read a lot about the research they did at Columbia, and this bug is a bacteria that needs antibiotics treatment in order to demolish it. Dr. J. has a full spectrum of treatments that he uses and it's certainly not a fly-by-night practice.
I pray for him and his staff and all his patients who would be totally lost without him, including me!
Happy New Year to all of you. Hopefully this will be a good thing and the medical board will learn some new things about Lyme Disease that they didn't know before. Think about it, how many doctors do you know that are familiar with Lyme Diseaes? I know one - Dr. J!
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I had some communication with Dr. J and he seems very confident. Some of us have also been asked to do support letters.
I personally see this as a good thing. I hate that Dr. J has to go through all this, but in the end, it will be positive for the Lyme community.
Now this is interesting ... proving this is a witch hunt ... I went to the NC Medical Board site and went through a few months worth of their meeting minutes (they meet about once a month, or more frequently if a situation arises). In any given month, there are many doctors being investigated or sanctioned for various reasons. But we never see any of that in the media. But this story made all the major papers, and even some small town papers. Why is that? Why is this situation any different than other doctors here in NC being accused of practicing bad medicine?
I have still not heard any definites from the NCLDF about the hearing on 02/15 and what patients and supporters will be asked to do. But I will do what I can to support him.
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Untill the truth is" revealed down here" How many will suffer? I for one have waited 20 years and can't wait another day.
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Very interesting point ConnieMC in regards to all those other hearings and why we don't see them posted in the media.
I will check it out - the Medical Board's Site.
I have heard that the hearing has been postponed at this point with no date for certain yet....some grumblings about August.
Which brings me to my point that if the complaint was so serious why such a long wait?!?
I am with you - I think this will be a great chance to educate the state on how prevelant these infections are.
Recently I met a woman who gardens about five miles from my house. She said, Oh yeah, I get ehrlichia every year and get antibiotic treatment for it. I don't think she realizes the potential to contract other lovely things like Babesia and Lyme...tried to educate without seeming like a freak.
It is a problem down here and I am hoping they will all wake up after they really see how many people are affected by this down here.
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Good point, ConnieNC. And wasn't the LAST time we heard about a doc going up against the Board that Lyme duck who was treating everyone with IV hydrogen peroxide?
Makes ya wonder who's got connections to the press.
My mom even showed me the Dr. J article in her hometown SC paper -- and believe it, this is a SMALL-town paper. So I am assuming that the wire services picked this up.
Connections....
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Yes Shaz...It was the Associated Press that picked it up...
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My take on this is that the4 5 cases they are refering to were turned down by the insurance company because they were perscribed oral antibiotics for the first 30 days so he could run a urine PCR test. This cannot be done until you push antibiotics.
I am one of his patients and I have a positive PCR. I also have erhricliosis and babs. a lot of my bands were negative. But the PCR has continued to be positive.
anywho-----------my husband and I are in the medical field and have heard that the whole story stemed out of a insurance denial.
I spent 16 years of my life floundering not knowing what the heck was wrong with me until Dr. J came along.
Hopefully it will blow over
Cathy
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