Re: Phyllis: Activists Say YIKES We need to KILL the MD BILL! LOL


<a_weisman@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> pmerv@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
>> you are assuming that by doing nothing, we would be better off
>> I disagree
>
> Have you EVER heard the expression "leave well enough alone" (or leave
> terrible enough alone?)
>
> Because as bad as it was BEFORE this misguided effort, it now has the
> very real potential of being far worse.
>
> So yes I think it is clear to anyone with a functioning brain that we
> would be better off doing NOTHING than doing this.
>
> That said, I'm NOT advocating doing nothing. I am advocating rejecting
> demagogic simplistic "solutions" that are ill considered, not thought
> through and which have no chance of suceeding. I'm advocating NOT
> trying to fix what ain't broken.
>
> I'm advocating thought before action Phyllis.

snipsnip
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> THe problem is that most doctors don't buy into the chronic Lyme thing.
> By most I mean well over 99%. Probably over 99.9%
>

And how are you gonna recruit more legit candidates when non-IDSA Lymeland
recruits more bizarro stuff from one day to the next? You WILL recruit more
bizarro 'doctors', and you can certainly drum up their business at the
non-IDSA seminars or on lists that where folks are manipulated and censored
for questioning and demanding answers.

Lymeland has gone from the reasonable pursuit of extended antibiotic therapy
and analysis of potential co-infections (and a reasonable use of
alternatives) to a free-for-all that incorporates just about anything. This
is madness. Where are the voices of reasonableness? Why all this enabling
and lack of any sort of peer control?

And using naive sick patients to stump for legislation that perpetuates this
out-of-control 'medicine' and legislation that can well turn around and bite
them is pretty shabby.

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> And just move on to the next state? Because that is what appears to be
> happening.

I'm waiting to see what happens in my Oregon.

Rita


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