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i can't open this, do you know what date this aired?
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arg82
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Very good story on it. I'm impressed that this doctor (who I've never heard about - I live in MA) seems to know a good amount about Lyme and says that it's an epidemic. I hope more doctors will start to open their eyes to this, too!
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Don't worry Arg - he won't be unknown for long.
It is sad. I did have a bird hit my winshield the other day and that was definitely strange. So West Nile is probably here by me again.
In 1999 the year it was discovered I had three dead birds in my pool, and I hit a bird with my car and had it immediately confiscated by waiting detectives. The birds were flying disorientedly into the cars and the police were collecting them for the scientists. Very interesting summer for me, 1999.
Lyme Disease though is a much more REAL threat than West Nile in my opinion.
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Thanks for posting this Nan
Its good that the doctor seems to be taking LD seriously. Specially in mass.
Question . In the clip it says that the deer ticks carry LD. Can also dog tick & others carry LD?
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He is not a Lyme Litterate physican. He's a duck that has just started to open his eyes. Vision is still blurry, but he's beginning to understand the issue.
The reason he got all this press is because, he's not one of those quack Lyme Docotors who have recognized the freaking problem has been here for a long time as it is.
What really irks me is how much the health departments are willing to do when this one guy say's lyme is a problem, but even though WE'VE BEEN SAYING THIS FOR 20 FREAKING YEARS, WE GET NOTHING FROM THE HEALTH DEPARTMENTS.
Here is another link to a different article about this topic. Allan Steere talks about lyme disease, those who say that these idiots never contradict themselves, I suggest reading this article for the quotes given by allan steere. You would almost think he cared about Lyme Disease. That is, unless you knew Allan Steere.
Its always possible he's had a change of heart, but until hell freezes over, Allan is still considered good friends with Lucifer, even if he seems to be making nice in the link below, no truce yet pal, we're still suffering.
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More about the physcian sounding the alarm, Dr. Lester Hartman: He does sound like a pretty good guy, even if he is a duck that's thinking of changing his colors.
Dr. Lester Hartman is the senior pediatric associate at Westwood Mansfield Pediatrics and has served the community for 20 years. He presently serves on the Board of Directors for the Pediatric Physicians Organization at Children?s Hospital Boston (PPOC). He is also the quality improvement chairperson for the PPOC asthma subcommittee and served for 3 ? years as the Chairperson for the Quality Improvement Committee recognized for its work on asthma, ADHD, and obesity. In 2001, he received the Community pediatrician award from the PPOC. In 2004, his practice was 1 of 40 private practices selected by the AMA across the country for a DVD on implementing QI strategies in the office setting. He has an instructorship position at Boston University Medical Center.
He has been a member of the Boston based organization Physicians for Human Rights and has been a guest lecturer on the medical consequences of landmines at several venues including the Harvard School of Public Health and neurology grand rounds at the Brigham and Women?s Hospital. He has worked closely in Cambodia with the Nobel Peace Prize winning organization- Vietnam Veterans of America Foundation. He has traveled to Phnom Penh Cambodia three times and has worked to raise the funding for a rehabilitation house and a children?s playground and foot molds for prosthetic limbs for children with St. Paul?s Church in Dedham, MA. He has guided the church in supporting a teenage landmine victim?s college education and family housing in Phnom Penh. The mission culminated in the purchase of home as this young woman as the owner. He has also served for 3 year on the church vestry.
Presently he is working as the medical consultant for HOPEH ( Haitian Organization Programs for Education and Health) which partners with his cousins? organization Carroll County Haiti Mission Project (CCHMP). Together he has come close to completion of a pilot study of vaccinating 150 children of Juampas and Pareidon with the Hepatitis B vaccine and HIB (meningitis vaccine). He has raised the funding so far for medical equipment and medication for the clinic. He has traveled yearly to Juampas, Haiti for the last 3 years recently bringing his 15 year old daughter Sarah. His most recent trip was Feb 2006. He has been a long-term member of the St Paul?s mission committee and is playing a role in the church committing long term to supporting HOPEH.
He has also recently raised over $20,OOO for Habitat for Humanity and 2 Gulf Coast churches effected by Katrina. His own childhood home in New Orleans was destroyed by floodwaters after Katrina.
He resides in Needham, Massachusetts with his wife (Holly) and 2 daughters ( Sarah and Laura) and nephew David) and their dog Teddy.
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Quote from Dr. Hartman in the tinyurl link I provided above.
"I'm seeing a kind of complacency about Lyme Disease. I talked to one mother and it was like 'Oh yea, people get Lyme disease.' Parents say 'I'm not worried.'" he said, "I don't think people really appreciate...that this is on the rise, that Lyme Disease is not a benign illness."
Huh, complacency about Lyme Disease, gee, I wonder how that could have happened?
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Allow me a quote from the Famed Pediatrician on loan from God, named Eugene Shapiro (I get all star stuck just thinking about that guy, I mean, seriously, if I had that kind of attractive lack of hair, and unable to resist pot belly, the girls would be all over me, allas, I'm not the same kinda hunk Eugene happens to be)
"We know that for people who do get Lyme Disease, they can be treated, more than 95percent of them get better without any problems, that's really the bottom line."
For such a trivial illness, it doesn't make sence for people to be anything BUT complacent.
Thanks Euguene for caring about the public health. Expect to see Eugene crowned People Magazine's next sexyiest man of the year, it was only a matter of time really, how can you compete with this kind of girl attracting manness and his undying attention to public health.
Link to quote: Its in the movie clip from OpeneyePictures.
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