sparkle7
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Credibility to who? We're already nut jobs to "the normals"... CFS, Fibromyalgia, Gulf War syndrome, etc. - these illnesses are already being considered as a mental condition to be treated with anti-depressants.
I've had doctors throw samples of Zoloft at me. If we never get to the bottom of what is making us ill - how are we going to be able to treat it properly?
Conspiracies abound in every area where there's power or money to be made. All of this stuff does not happen by coincidence...
Who decided to start prosecuting these doctors who treat Lyme? Didn't a bunch of people have to come together to decide this? Isn't this a conspiracy? Or am I just a crack pot having paranoid delusions?
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Keebler
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- In my state, any doctor who even wants to help a lyme patient would be at huge risk of loosing their medical license (it has happened, more than a few times). Of course, were there to even be any MD willing or knowledgeable to treat in my state, they'd not want to have their name posted on a world wide web site.
Others choose to write books or publish articles to further openness and understanding. Those articles and books are generally public knowledge, even on authors' own web sites. And, to be quoted or even the title referenced, by copyright law, their names have to go alongside the book.
And, without knowing about those articles and book, undiagnosed or under-treated patients will continue to get worse. More will die. No doubt about it, those who write save lives through their work being in the public eye.
But there is a clear distinction here. Those who are published and those who are private.
We cannot assume that all doctors who work with lyme patients want their names out there. Unless they specifically jump to the front of the line, we must assume they want to maintain privacy to work as best they can.
We can't "stand up for our rights" if, by doing so, it jeopardizes the very livelihood of those doctors trying to quietly treat us because - right now - in this country, that is just the way it is. It is not safe (at least not in all fifty states).
For now, for those who want to be advocates, there are other ways to help change what's wrong. -
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