Re: NY OPMC Vetoes

derdrittemann2003_at_yahoo.com
Date: 12/24/04 

Date: 23 Dec 2004 22:15:42 -0800

zipzip wrote:

"i would have to guess, in the simplest terms, "we" is anyone looking
to
> treat medical neccessities outside "the box", or criteria mandated by
> the NIH and the insurance companies (though they are not mutually
> exclusive)
>
> and when i say outside the box i obviously don't mean WAY outside the
> box. i don't know how far FAIM takes it but i don't see that are
> selling silver or practicing reiki. i can't speak for the
homeopathic
> companies and the products they sell but i'm sure they are more
> innocuous than a month of FDA approved drugs (though the efficacy may
> be 1% thereof, remains to be seen)".

Okay...I guess I see where you're coming from philosophicaly,
here...but the "devil"...as they say...is in the details...and how does
that apply here?

I mean...I guess I am very concerned about the overall danger of
"evidence-based" medicine...that does not allow a doctor to treat
according to neccessity and his own empirical observations.

I think patients have a BIG interest in the outcome of that
battle...and frankly, looking at Lyme from the larger view...the image
I have is of the Federal Government trying to control how doctors treat
this disease...and it is scary. And the mechanism is "evidence-based"
medicine. It is intimidating.

But we're talking about this in relation to a very conventional
remedy...antibiotics.

I get a little nervous about just experimenting with human beings and
"let's see what works". Remeber the Questran crap? (Is it still around?
I don't even know).

I think you want physicians, through their professional associations,
to address most of the practice issues. That's the best case
scenario...how it's supposed to work.

And you also, as a society, want physicians and professional groups to
create and enforce their disciplinary rules of conduct. Here, I think
you had a bad situation...that has lead to some over-reaching in
efforts to correct the balance.

If you have been around Lymeland for awhile, you have seen some pretty
good scams flying around...and I'm sure more to come.

I don't want to make things easier for these predators or give the
impression that we are associated with those who would.
>
>> "did i get off topic"?

No.

"this thread is way too long".

Talk to Greg Gerber about that...LOL. He just wants to belabor every
argument into every last boring detail. LOL.

P.S. Hey...saw your pitch over at Lymenut...about Schumer's bill and
especially liked the one who said, in essence, "we gotta ask Pat
first."

There you go. Hell, it's her deal. I saw the photos from the
announcements. She's kinda hard to miss.

Anyway...I'm not sure you're wrong there...and like you say, even if it
doesn't work...well, then you have raised the awareness of some.

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