Re: the real issue in the Jones case

This is consistent with your usual posture of never doing anything. I
know what the case is about. Why should we let our enemies frame the
issue? This is about access to care, which we have a HUGE problem with
because of the IDSA. The standard of care is indeed relevant here if
you consider the practical options for the child in Nevada, where there
are NO LLMDs. Or the options for any other patient who has to wait for
months or travel hundreds of miles to see an LLMD. Why should anyone
wish to see that child's health deteriorate further while he waits for
his/her appointment with the only pediatric LLMD in America, or in the
world, as far as I know? The law is made for man, not man for the law,
remember.

Somebody has already added to the original list:

* You can't possible have Lyme disease because we don't have it here.

* You finally get to your far distant, too busy Lyme doctor, but
can't pay for the appt. because your insurance won't cover it.

* Or, the LLMD can't afford to keep accepting Medicare, so after
having been misdiagnosed for years so that you are now disabled,
the
only medical coverage you have will not pay for the treatment you
need.

* Even when you figure out how to pay for the LLMD appt., your
insurance refuses to cover the medications that are required
because
it isn't "medically indicated."

* You have an EM rash? Oh, that's really ringworm, or eczema, or
hives, or nerves, or a spider bite. So you don't need antibiotics.
See, it went away
by itself! Oh, no, it doesn't have anything to do with the pain you
feel, or your exhaustion, or your trouble thinking. No, that is
probably depression, or menopause.

I don't expect you to agree with me and other people will have to make
their own decision about which "leaders" to follow. I think setting up
a legal defense fund for Dr. Jones would be a good first step.

ps I do know the saying but we translate it, Not always right, but
never in doubt. Surely that applies to you in your often strident
assertions?

.

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