Re: Current CDC on Lyme Diagnosis

From: Greatcod (Greatcod_at_Yahoo.com)
Date: 07/29/04 

Date: 28 Jul 2004 21:01:08 -0700

"In major endemic areas in the United States, Lyme disease
commonly presents as erythema migrans with homogeneous or central
redness and nonspecific flu-like symptoms."

No ***! That's what people were telling Steere from the begining and
for years afterwards, but he stuck to his Bullseye and Swollen Joints
song and dance, and you know it. Let me ask you this--if a doctor
moves to an endemic area, where do you think that doctor is going to
get Lyme information--by reviewing the obscure details of hundreds of
articles, or by turning to the CDC website?
Your view of medical reality is almost bizzare--as if doctor's get
their
information on new drugs by pouring over the fine points of research
papers.
The world doesn't work that way--Medicine doesn't deliver that way.
Steere and Yalecrap rode the tide of an over simplefied message as far
as they could, without any concern for the wellbeing of people....
An old man and his wife came to our support group meeting a short time
ago.
He had a rash, and his doctor told him they would wait for other
symptoms to emerge before starting treatment....Vintage Steere--had
Allen been paying attention at Lyme, the Medical world would have been
treating an EM with antibiotics from the get go. And that old man
wouldn't be in danger.
But hey, Steere is rich and famous....the old man hasn't got long to
live anyway..Science rules, Medicine is for the less gifted.
You're like Steere--hiding behind revisionist nonsense--with no real
concern for all the damaged lives, no sense even that Medicine is
about human lives,
an twisted apologist for ruthless ambition.