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This has been done before, not with good results.
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Keebler
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- He would be run out of the country by the IDSA.
He's did one short segment about lyme on his show (mediocre but still had some value. He did say that untreated lyme can cause all kinds of problems but he just told people to talk to their doctor. He seemed to have no clue how useless that is for most people. He did not provide good links),
he appeared on Ophrah with the producers of "Under Our Skin" and just could not come around to the complexity of it.
His show is also not formatted to do justice to the topic.
Mostly, though, his career in private practice, at the hospital, and in media would likely be destroyed by the IDSA. So he has to walk a careful line.
PBS was clobbered by all kinds of ISDA bullies last spring when they TRIED to air "Under Our Skin" across the U.S. Many stations either did not broadcast it, or aired it like at 3 a.m.
Yes, indeed, we need good doctors to learn more and speak out. But their careers, even their lives and those of their employees and families can also be on the line. The IDSA has some very nasty techniques.
If it were my career, my family, I'd not do it. However, I would hope that he'd quietly under the radar to learn more, and build relationships with ILADS.
It would take him a long time to get up to speed enough to even do a proper program were he inclined. He would need a very ILADS-educated producer. Anything less and it the result would suffer. -
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