file.newsgroup.med.58105 Maven / Gradle / Ivy
From: [email protected] (Gordon Banks)
Subject: Re: Update (Help!) [was "What is This [Is it Lyme's?]"]
In article <[email protected]> [email protected] (John Setel O'Donnell) writes:
>
>I shouldn't have to be posting here. Physicians should know the Lyme
>literature beyond Steere & co's denial merry-go-round. Patients
>should get correctly diagnosed and treated.
>
Why do you think Steere is doing this? Isn't he acting in good faith?
After all, as the "discoverer" of Lyme for all intents and purposes,
the more famous Lyme gets, the more famous Steere gets. I don't
see the ulterior motive here. It is easy for me to see it the
those physicians who call everything lyme and treat everything.
There is a lot of money involved.
>I'm a computer engineer, not a doctor (,Jim). I was building a
>computer manufacturing company when I got Lyme. I lost several
>years of my life to near-total disability; partially as a result,
>the company failed, taking with it over 150 jobs, my savings,
>and everything I'd worked for for years. I'm one of the "lucky"
>ones in that I found a physician through the Lyme foundation
>and now can work almost full-time, although I have persistent
>infection and still suffer a variety of sypmtoms. And now
>I try to follow the Lyme literature.
>
Well, it is tragic what has happened to you, but it doesn't
necessarily make you the most objective source of information
about it. If your whole life is focussed around this, you
may be too emotionally involved to be advising other people
who may or may not have Lyme. Certainly advocacy of more research
on Lyme would not be out of order, though, and people like you
can be very effective there.
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