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He may want to revisit this to keep up with Dr Phil! When was the show aired? I had heard he did a show on it, but I hadn't seen it.
he made two errors... he said "the rash is present in 78% of the cases" and you "have 36 hours to do something about the tick"...
(and he first referred to the tick as an insect)
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- Due to the restraints he's under, he can't do it. The format of the show does not allow such honesty and completeness as necessary on a program that has that kind of sponsors.
He's been on Oprah with the producers of "Under Our Skin" and disagreed with them regarding chronic lyme.
He also has a few misperceptions and has been negligent in the quality of little research that he has done.
I do not think he has the time to do proper homework and would rely too much on the CDC / IDSA / NIH.
He did run a short segment on his program explaining that lyme can cause serious problems but he stopped short.
He walks a very fine line with the medical establishment as it is. They clobbered him last year when he found arsenic in apple juice and told parents to stop giving that to their kids.
Medical "experts" said he was just overreacting.
His show could not possible stand the kind of effort or criticism that would come from a program exposing the truth about lyme.
He still works at a hospital. Were he to tell the truth about lyme, his career would be over.
He has to keep the CDC / IDSA / NIH happy. It's the way his world works. I understand that.
As it is, he's pushing the line in many ways. And that's important but he's just not ready or equipped to create what is needed right now.
In the meantime, he is a good voice for nutrition and basic self-care information.
As it is, the format of his show is designed for those with ADD - he never spends more that a couple minutes on any topic that does not get a laugh. Entertainment with some information tossed in is just the way it's formatted.
He could do far more harm than good if he still thinks a tick needs to be attached for 36 hours. -
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- PBS Stations can still air "Under Our Skin" at no cost to them for another full year.
Last May, that even sank when so many PBS local stations fell to pressure from local IDSA "experts" to not run the program in local markets.
Many stations did not air it at all, some at 3 a.m., and some did air in it. But it could have received so much attention and it just folded.
We already have a wonderful documentary. Let's see if local PBS stations have grown a backbone.
But, oh, wait. So many rely on funding from local hospitals or national pharmaceutical companies to advertise or otherwise support them (same as with commercial television).
They have to keep their sponsors happy.
Why not contact your LOCAL PBS station and ask the director to air UNDER OUR SKIN. -
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He did mention it can be deadly right in the beginning.
But yea the rash and attachment time is horse ****.
Figure if he said Lyme can be deadly we can work on him for more.
Someone on FB mentioned we should email 60 minutes also I think thats a good plan.
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- While it would be nice to see a proper report on any credible news magazine . . . I would be very cautious about 60 Minutes.
They will likely bow to the CDC / NIH / IDSA. That what journalists are TRAINED to do, seek out the top government officials. That usually is the right approach.
They would ask Mayo, Yale, Johns Hopkins -- all stellar in many other ways, of course, but not lyme literate.
It would be very hard for a reporter who is able to work such a tough schedule to really understand how disabling lyme can be.
I've studied the kind of reporting on all the network news magazines and I can't think of any top reporter who seems able to do credit to this assignment.
My impression is that they would be overwhelmed by the complexity of treatment protocol and be tempted to declare the patients "out to lunch" or worse.
Wish the networks would all just air the documentary "Under Our Skin" as it really is a good start and does a much better job than most reporters would be able to do under their constraints of time, sponsors and politics.
FRONTLINE, on PBS might be best able new magazine but even they really dropped the ball on the toxicity issue of mercury in vaccines and followed the government heads. They dismissed parents as being too worried.
I don't mean to shoot down all the suggestions it is just that since I studied, worked in and taught journalism, I've been watching with this in mind for years.
I see no journalist whom I think is ready and able to tackle this topic.
I would like to see some kind of training sessions for journalists around the matter of chronic illness and also around "alternative" medicine as that frequently gets scoured in the media.
But - remember that ALL networks employ MD CONSULTANTS and they guide every medical feature.
There you go. Ultimately, the network medical consultant will have the last word (and they are all IDSA / CDC / NIH fans). -
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- As she addressed the IOM meeting with a stellar report,
Lorraine Johnson with LymeDisease.org would be the very best person, along with the LDA board and staff, and other good lyme organizations to help figure all this out.
For anyone working on this, be sure to contact all of them. I'm sure they've given it much consideration. They would know the best guests, etc. too. -
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