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Disease Information for Kaiser Permanente Patients
NEW: Memorable and Not So Memorable Quotes by Lyme
Disease Denialists
This compilation of ludicrous
quotes by certain of the Infectious Diseases Society of America (IDSA) Lyme
disease guideline authors, their cohorts, and other Lyme disease denialists was
started by an early Lyme disease activist named Douglas Dodge. This compilation
had not been updated for many years. Some have been recently added. There are
many more that could be added.
These comments should be
preserved so they are not forgotten.https://kaiserpapers.com/lyme/memorable-quotes-by-lyme-disease-denialists.html=================================================================================================NEW:
Steven Harris ILADS presentation - Augsberg, Germany - May
28, 2011
Strategies for the Treatment of Lyme Disease
A superb and comprehensive presentation on Lyme disease diagnosis,
testing, and treatment.
http://xa.yimg.com/kq/groups/4321767/1522199476/name/Stephen%20Harris%20ILADS2011.pdf
Introduction
Lyme
disease is a serious bacterial infection caused by Borrelia
burgdorferi, a corkscrew-shaped
bacterium of the
spirochete group. Other
spirochetes cause diseases such as
syphilis, rat-bite fever
and relapsing fever. The
primary means of
infection is by tick bite although the disease has also been
shown
to be transmitted by other insects. The nymphal Ixodes tick,
the primary culprit in transmission,
is so small (about the size of a
poppyseed) the
victim will rarely notice it and will not feel
it bite. People
should not be lulled into
thinking themselves safe because they did not notice a tick.
Maternal-fetal
transmission of the Lyme disease spirochete has
been demonstrated by a number of credible clinical
studies by Lyme disease researchers. Sexual transmission of Lyme
disease is suspected by leading
clinical practitioners.
Because of the unreliability
of most tests and laboratories, Lyme disease can be difficult to
diagnose
for those with no expertise.
Inexperienced doctors tend to rely on highly restrictive CDC
testing criteria
that very few can meet
– perhaps only 5% to 10% of those with
proven Lyme disease that
was never
treated. They
naively believe
that if a person does not meet the strict and exclusionary CDC
serodiagnostic
crtiteria
developed for surveillance purposes, that person does not
have Lyme disease.
Kaiser
doctors have
used this ploy as a means to support a
non-diagnosis. The
CDC has repeatedly stated that Lyme
disease is a clinical diagnosis and that surveillance case standards
should not be used for diagnostic
purposes.
Most experienced doctors
diagnose Lyme disease according to the cluster of symptoms
it can present.
These symptoms are stated
in the articles within this section. The most common symptom
associated
with Lyme disease is fatigue. The
“erythema migrans” rash is the
only symptom specific to the disease
but only
occurs in 50% or fewer of those infected. It normally occurs
within 30 days of infection and
then fades. Late-stage
Lyme disease victims often do not notice and do not recall a rash.
Kaiser’s
Lack of Tick Borne Disease Expertise and Misdiagnoses
Kaiser
does not seem to have any
doctors experienced in tick borne diseases. The guidelines they
follow promote
the
view that
Lyme disease as "hard
to catch and easy to cure", despite the
fact that
the disease is epidemic in their market areas. Late-stage
and chronic
cases can
involve long-term
treatment and substantial expense. They also have not shown
any
demonstrated expertise, judging from
our patient inputs, in diagnosing
coinfections of
Lyme disease
and other infections
which can
be as
devastating
as Lyme disease. Complications
of Lyme disease
and tick-borne coinfections are often
disabling and sometimes can be fatal.
Kaiser's
usual
reaction is to
misdiagnose the patient with a syndrome of unknown case and unknown
cure or
to suggest a patient has psychiatric disorders. Or the member may
simply be abandoned.
Some of the more
common
misdiagnoses are chronic fatigue syndrome, fibromyalgia, multiple
sclerosis,
lupus and
early Alzheimer's disease. If
a well meaning Kaiser doctor
tries to help a patient with advanced
Lyme disease, that doctor is
normally
forced to defer
to Kaiser’s
infectious disease doctors who will
likely
deny a diagnosis of Lyme disease.
Kaiser’s
Economic
Rationale for Denials and Methods of Denial
An
upper-level
Kaiser employee
explained to me why Kaiser will not help Lyme disease victims. This
person, and
the spouse of this person,
both have chronic Lyme disease. They have to go to a non-Kaiser
doctor
for treatment
and pay out-of-pocket. This person explained that Kaiser views Lyme
disease in
the same context as
AIDS only that Lyme
disease is far more common and the risk exposure far greater.
AIDS
has
been and is a
large cash drain for Kaiser and they don’t want to repeat the
experience. So
their solution is
not to diagnose in
the first place or
to severely limit Lyme diagnoses. This explanation is
consistent
with
Kaiser’s behavior – it’s
about
money.
Kaiser
has thus
far managed to
escape culpability by claiming to follow restrictive guidelines
published
by the Infectious
Diseases Society
of America (IDSA). The
Connecticut Attorney General
has launched
an investigation into the monopolistic guidelines policy of IDSA and
the "Lyme experts" who authored the
IDSA guidelines. There
are
two standards of care
for Lyme
disease. Kaiser
will not give the member the
choice of
following the guidelines
issued by the International Lyme
and Associated
Diseases Society (ILADS)
because the open-ended treatment
could prove
too
costly.
Kaiser
has gone one step farther
than the IDSA guidelines in order to avoid diagnoses. West Coast
patients
have
had their blood samples
sent to the East Coast for analysis, a practice that has been condemned
by IDSA
because of the
high risk of sample degradation.
According
to laboratory records, in some cases samples were
not analyzed for
as
long as two weeks after
the blood draw, likely
rendering the sample worthless. In other cases
samples have been sent to the
laboratory of
Allen Steere (IDSA).Another
factor is that the cheap
and inaccurate
Elisa “screening”
test that Kaiser uses
is based on an East Coast strain of
the Lyme spirochete. Comparison
with
a
reference strain that
differs from the strains found on the West Coast will be more likely to
produce a
"negative"
result.
Kaiser has been known to
dismiss test results
from
the highest rated laboratories in the
country for tick borne
infections, no
matter how specific and how diagnostic
the
results may be.
One
method used by
ethically
challenged HMO’s and health insurers to discourage extended
treatment is to file
anonymous
complaints to
state medical boards against doctors who “overdiagnose and
overtreat” Lyme disease.
In fact, Kaiser
instigated one of the earliest cases
of Lyme physician
harassment in the United States by filing a
complaint against
an Oregon doctor who was
diagnosing and treating Lyme
patients, one of whom was a
Kaiser
member. Kaiser was
“tipped
off” to this physician when the patient attempted to fill a
prescription for
long-term
antibiotics through a Kaiser pharmacy. Kaiser paid for an
East Coast "Lyme expert" to testify before the Oregon
Board
of Medical
Examiners on whom Kaiser appears
to have
an undue influence, not only in this case but other
cases
as well not involving Lyme disease.
This “Lyme
expert” is now part of the investigation by the
Connecticut
Attorney General.
The
physician was
told to stop
treating Lyme patients or to give up his license. Since no physician
has the
resources to contest Kaiser’s
legal and
financial assets, he chose the former and was forced to give up his
Lyme
patients. This early case of Lyme physician harassment has had a
very negative effect on the ability of
Pacific Northwest
residents to get help for Lyme disease since this threat has
discouraged regional doctors
to become specialists in tick
borne diseases. The Pacific Northwest is also home to two ex-presidents
of the
Infectious Diseases Society of America, David Gilbert of the
Oregon Health & Science University and Walter
Stamm of
the University of Washington, both of whom seem to do their utmost to
insure that regional doctors
comply with
IDSA restrictions on treating Lyme disease.
Some
states,
including
California, have adopted legislation to protect doctors treating Lyme
disease.
Conclusions
A Kaiser
member who suspects
they have Lyme disease should seek help from a tick-borne disease
specialist.
Prompt and sufficient
treatment is
essential to prevent the disabling complications and probable
incurability of a
late-stage infection and a potential lifetime
of misery.
Undertreatment is a potentially dangerous option. Kaiser
Lyme disease
victims
in Oregon and Washington normally
go to California or the
East Coast for competent
treatment. Most tick-borne disease
specialists on the West Coast are quite familiar with Kaiser
members.
East Coast Kaiser members have a number of
excellent tick borne disease specialists available to them.
As
a former member
of Kaiser for
27 years, I had to change health plans because three infectious disease
specialists at Kaiser Permanente
Northwest refused to
diagnose me for Lyme disease despite specific
serodiagnostic
criteria and
symptoms consistent
with and diagnostic for Lyme disease. Two of these doctors
never
even
saw me. At the time, I was in very poor health because of Lyme
disease. It took
four years of
treatment by a tick borne disease specialist
to regain
most of my former health.
The
loss of 10
potentially
productive years – 6 years undiagnosed and 4 years in
treatment - can never be
compensated. It was the
callousness, ignorance and
dishonesty of these doctors and the subsequent
knowledge that
Lyme
disease denials are standard
operating procedure for
Kaiser that prompted me to create
this Lyme disease
information page for
Kaiser members. The
refusal to diagnose Lyme
disease by Kaiser
doctors, particularly late-stage disease,
seems to
be quite common.
I
hope the
information on this
page is helpful to those for whom it was intended and that those who
read it are
spared the negative and
harmful experiences of
myself and others regarding Kaiser and Lyme disease.
An
excellent informational booklet by
the Lyme Disease Association of Southeastern PA.
This is very well written for the newcomer to Lyme
disease and other
tick borne diseases.
http://www.lymepa.org/html/the_basics_-_description.html
Scott
Smith,
Infectious Diseases, Kaiser Redwood City "The Professor of Parasites"
“Local cases of Lyme disease are quite unusual -- I see maybe one case
per year. I would say
that local residents are at very low risk for contracting Lyme disease.
There's a lot more risk in
Humboldt and other northern counties in California. Only
about 1
percent of local ticks carry Lyme
disease.” (Note; Factual information from Santa Cruz Public Health
Department; “A two-year study
by biologists at San Jose State University found infection rates
ranging from 5 to 9 percent among
western black-legged ticks (Ixodes pacificus) and American dog ticks
(Dermancentor variabilis)
in Santa Cruz County.”) Note: The following is now placed in
sfgate archives.
http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/g/a/2003/10/27/urbananimal.DTL
Kaiser
Permanente responds:
"Of
course we treat
Lyme disease at Kaiser Permanente -- but it is infrequent in California," said
David J. Witt, MD, Chief of Infectious Diseases for Kaiser Permanente
Northern California. Kaiser
Permanente's medical group of 4400 physicians serve more than 3.1
million members in 17 hospitals
and 152 medical office buildings in Northern California."
"We
follow clinical guidelines for diagnosing and treating Lyme Disease
that were published jointly by
The
Infectious Diseases Society of America and American Rheumatologic
Association. Our world-class
clinical
laboratories diagnose complex diseases - including Lyme
disease. If there is any question, we
send
specimens to the laboratory run by Allen Steere, MD of Massachusetts
GeneralHospital," he
said.
(Note:
The Lyme disease panel of the Infectious Diseases Society of America is
under an antitrust
investigation
filed by
the Connecticut Attorney General. Steere, part of the antitrust
investigation, has
publicly
bragged that
his laboratory could not find evidence of Lyme disease in samples when
other
laboratories
had
positive results (for the same sample).
Kaiser’s
Lyme
Disease Executive Summary which was removed from the Internet
by
Kaiser. Note that
these
guidelines discourage testing, give a high (and false) accuracy of the
Lyme ELISA screening test,
restrict
diagnostic criteria by focusing on joint inflammation and Bell’s palsy,
and encourage a diagnosis
of
fibromyalgia. http://www.harp.org/eng/kaiserslymesummary.htm
“In
Sonoma
County, only about 1 percent of adult ticks and 5 percent of nymphs are
infected with the
Lyme disease bacteria, (Gary) Green (Kaiser Santa Rosa, Infectious
Diseases) said.”
http://www.msmosquito.com/PD080507.html
Note;
In the
same article…“But the tick infection rate can vary widely in
areas
of Northern
California .
Anne Kjemtrup, an epidemiologist with the state Department of Health
Services, said that in some spots
of Trinity, Humboldt and Mendocino counties, up to 40 percent of
nymphal ticks have the Lyme bacterium.”
http://www.sonoma-county.org/health/ph/diseasecontrol/pdf/lyme_ca.pdf
SonomaCounty
continues to
have this on their health page despite numerous requests to have it
removed.
This is the only non-government reference cited on
the
Sonoma County Lyme page. This
presentation
by Gary Green of Kaiser Santa Rosa suggests the use of CDC surveillance
criteria as
diagnostic
criteria, relies on sources approved by the Infectious Diseases Society
of America (IDSA),
now
under a Civil Antitrust Investigation by the Connecticut Attorney
General, promotes the use of test
kits
and laboratories that are modeled around East Coast strains of Lyme
disease (and less likely to
give
a
positive result for West Coast Lyme disease), ignores laboratories on
the West Coast and East
Coast
that have demonstrated expertise and highest accuracy in diagnosing
Lyme disease, ignores
many
medical and scientific references that do not support Dr. Green’s (and
Kaiser’s) position, and
ignores
alternative guidelines by the International Lyme and Associated
Diseases Society (ILADS).
California
and
the Pacific
Northwest Tick Borne Disease Information
California
and
the Pacific
Northwest Lyme Disease Articles
Lizard
May Act As Lyme
Disease
Panacea.
(Note;
This article by
UC-Berkeley discusses a study showing infection rates of ticks in
Tilden
Regional Park within the San Francisco Metropolitan Area. In
one area
1.3
percent of adult ticks
carried the Lyme disease bacterium,
compared to
5.7
percent of nymphal ticks, the reduction
thought to be the
bacteriocidal
effect on
Lyme bacterium of the ticks feeding on Western Fence
lizards.
There are
two
major flaws with the extrapolation of this information. One is that the
distribution
of the Western Fence lizard tends to be spotty
and
diminishes to scarce
or nonexistent as one works
north of San Francisco to
British Columbia.
Ticks also
feed on rodents and birds. Second is that, as
far as is
known, the
Western
Fence lizard does nothing to eliminate other tick borne diseases
usually
associated with Lyme disease. Also, in other areas, lizards
have been
demonstrated to carry the Lyme
bacterium.
http://www.berkeley.edu/news/berkeleyan/1998/0429/lizard.html
Bitten
by the
Controversy
Bug by Andy Dworkin of The Oregonian
https://kaiserpapers.com/lyme/andy.html
Memorable
quotes from
David Gilbert who is considered the
regional Lyme
expert in Oregon…
“What
is increasingly common is patients who think they have Lyme disease,
not actual
cases,”
said Dr. David Gilbert, an
infectious
disease expert
at Portland-based
Providence Health Systems
and past president of the
Infectious Diseases Society
of America.
"I
have seen, in maybe 35 years of doing this, at the most two or maybe
three
cases," he said.
(Comment; this most certainly
must qualify
him as an
expert – one diagnosis every 10 to 15 years.)
Gilbert
said that "throughout the history of medicine" some people have
developed a set of nagging
symptoms -- often including
pain,
fatigue
and
depression -- without an obvious cause. Some of these
patients search
for an
explanation on their
own, which creates a series of pop
diagnoses that
parade
like fashion trends through medical offices. (Comment; a sorry
excuse
for
physician incompetence
and ignorance.)
“…the
Oregon
Veterinary Medical Association last
year reported
over 100
cases of Lyme disease
in
the Portland metro area alone. This
figure is
likely also
vastly under
reported…”.
”Compare
this
to
the
pathetically low and grossly misleading figure of 3 human
cases
reported for all of Oregon
last
year.”This
will lead to some links that direct
the Lyme
Disease interested person to valid medical
diagnosis
and treatment.
https://kaiserpapers.com/lyme/lymelinks.html
Letter to
Barbara Johnson of the CDC, Chief, Molecular Biology Section
regarding HMO abuse of the CDC Lyme disease surveillance
case definition.
https://kaiserpapers.com/lyme/barbiejo.html
These
letters were
submitted to the NY Times in response to an article
critical of medical laboratories
specializing
in tick-borne
infections.
The
letters state how Kaiser has used flawed
Lyme testing to
deny
Lyme
diagnoses.
https://kaiserpapers.com/lyme/nytimesart.html
LYME
MAPS AND OTHER TICK BORNE DISEASE MAPS OF ALL STATES IN THE UNITED
STATES
Note; Reliable
tick distribution and tick disease studies are sorely lacking outside
of well recognized
endemic
areas such as the Northeast, the Midwest,
and California.
For the most part, such studies
are
either nonexistent, decades old, or poorly executed in other parts of the country where Lyme
disease
is not acknowledged to be endemic.
Also see
maps in papers for Lyme disease in various states published elsewhere
under Kaiser Papers
Lyme
disease information.
"The
Committee recognizes that the current
state of laboratory testing for Lyme disease is very poor.
The situation has
led many people to be misdiagnosed and
delayed
proper treatment."
"The
Committee is distressed in hearing of the widespread misuse of the
current Lyme disease surveillance
case
definition. While the CDC does state that 'this surveillance case
definition was developed for national
reporting
of Lyme disease: it is NOT appropriate for clinical diagnosis,' the
definition is reportedly misused
as a
standard of care for healthcare reimbursement, product (test)
development, medical licensing hearings,
and
other legal cases."
Connecticut
Attorney General Investigation and Settlement Highlights
Connecticut
Attorney General's Office
Press
Release
Attorney
General's
Investigation Reveals Flawed Lyme
Disease Guideline
Process,
IDSA Agrees To
Reassess Guidelines, Install
Independent
Arbiter
May
1, 2008
"In
fact, United Healthcare, Health Net, Blue Cross of California,
Kaiser Foundation Health Plan and
other insurers have used the
guidelines as justification to deny reimbursement
for long-term
antibiotic treatment."
When
To Suspect Lyme Disease by
John D. Bleiweiss, M.D
An
excellent monograph that has helped many.
http://cassia.org/essay.htm
Late
and Chronic
Lyme Disease:
Symptom Overlap
with Chronic
Fatigue Syndrome &
Fibromyalgia
By
Sam Donta, M.D.
Dr.
Donta is an acknowledged Lyme disease expert who has
done studies for the Department of
Defense.
Dr. Donta
refused to
be on
the IDSA
Lyme disease panel because he disagreed with their
recommendations.
http://www.immunesupport.com/library/showarticle.cfm/ID/3579
Lyme
Disease -point/counterpoint
Raphael B Stricker, Andrew
Lautin and Joseph J Burrascano
A
professional and well-documented discussion of the
problems inherent in Lyme disease diagnosis
and
treatment.
http://www.lymemed.nl/discussie/point&counterpoint.pdf
ILADS'
Position
Paper on the CDC's Statement Regarding Lyme
Diagnosis "The
Center for Disease
Control's
(CDC)
position on
diagnosing
Lyme disease (LD) is an
oversimplification of a complicated
clinical
condition. The CDC's two tiered
approach
using an
ELISA and confirming positives by both
IgM and
IgG
Western blots--potentially misses more
than 40% of the patients. One
year after the
tick
bite,
this percentage
may be greater than 50%.
"
"Lyme disease
is a
problematic diagnosis.
The
position
adopted by
the CDC makes it more
complicated."
http://www.ilads.org/position.htm
"The Need for
Clinical Judgement in the Diagnosis and Treatment of Lyme Disease"
http://www.senatordonwhite.com/banking/2010/062210/maloney-1.pdf
by EL Maloney - 2009
From which the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
Table 1. ..... rom CDC epidemiologist Dr. Paul Mead.- ...... themes
known to inflame
physicians, and it misled readers regarding the professional credential
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IGeneX
Laboratories has
prepared
an excellent
summary of testing for Lyme
and other tick borne diseases.
http://www.igenex.com/
Certificates
of
Approval for Igenex in Various States -
Statement by Igenex on Quality Assurance
and Proficiency
http://igenex.com/files/QA_PACKAGE_2010.pdf
IGENEX
LICENSES
Lyme
Disease
Network. A
source
of archived Lyme disease information and a
discussion group.
http://www.lymenet.org/
Sites
Not Recommended
Infectious
Diseases
Society
of America (IDSA) Lyme Guidelines. These
guidelines are the basis for
the
denial of Lyme disease
diagnosis and
treatment
by Kaiser Permanente. A cabal of 14 authors
and
a somewhat
larger
number of
cohorts with significant conflicts of interest seem to control much
of
the
published information on Lyme disease. Unfortunately, these
guidelines
are
blindly followed by
most
doctors who have little or no
knowledge about
Lyme
disease and rely on normally sound and
dependable
information from
the
prestigious IDSA. The IDSA guidelines are also promoted by CDC
Lyme
scientists,
many of whom have profit interests in Lyme disease.
http://www.journals.uchicago.edu/CID/journal/issues/v31nS1/000342/000342.web.pdf
American Lyme Disease Foundation. The
ALDF is essentially an arm of those
relative few who have
controlled Lyme disease information
for decades.
This
includes some of the authors of the IDSA Lyme
disease
guidelines. The
ALDF also
has ties to tThe ALDF is essentially an arm of
those
relative few who have
controlled Lyme disease information
for decades.
This
includes some of the authors of the IDSA Lyme
disease
guidelines. The
ALDF also
has ties to the CDC and vice-versa. The ALDF was
formed by
James
Connolly of
Castle & Connolly, an HMO advocate. The
ALDF and
its
members
have profit
interests
in Lyme disease.
http://www.aldf.com/
Quackwatch’s
Lyme
disease information was prepared by Dr. Edward McSweegan,
formerly the Lyme
disease program manager for the National
Institutes
of
Health. For various reasons, Dr. McSweegan
was removed as the NIH Lyme disease program manager. One
of the more
bizarre series of incidents
was stalking and harassing a
founder of the
Lyme
Disease Foundation; Karen Vanderhoof-Forschner.
Quackwatch
has been
successfully
sued by patient advocates. They appear to be sponsored by
HMO’s and Big Pharma.http://www.quackwatch.com/01QuackeryRelatedTopics/lyme.html
American
College of
Physicians. The ACP is another tool used by IDSA to
propagate their views on
Lyme
disease. The
same applies
to
Lyme disease
information issued by the American Academy of
Neurology
and
the
American
College of Rheumatology. In the case of the latter two institutions,
influential
members
include
authors of the
IDSA Lyme disease
guidelines.
http://www.acponline.org/lyme/index.html
Centers
for
Disease
Control and
Prevention. CDC Lyme information tends to be
incomplete, not
up-to-date and, sometimes, simply wrong. The CDC is heavily influenced
by the authors of the Infectious
Diseases Society of America. Lyme guidelines and information and
recommendations are perhaps biased
by the for-profit interests of Lyme scientists within the CDC. These
comments also apply to Lyme disease
information from the National Institutes of Health (NIH). CDC
Lyme information has been diluted to the
extent that it is of little benefit to the physician and patient. The
CDC's sponsorship of the private medical
organizations, the Infectious Diseases Society of America and the
American Lyme Disease Foundation,
is highly inappropriate.
http://www.cdc.gov/lyme/
Wikipedia
changes its Lyme information over time. Depending on whether
or not the latest
editorial
contributor is
pro-patient or
pro-HMO, the level of knowledge of the contributor and
whether
or not the contributor has a self-profit agenda, the content will vary.
The Wikipedia moderator has allowed the content to be almost entirely
influenced by IDSA input.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lyme
disease
“Under Our Skin” blog by Kris Newby
http://underourskin.com/blog/
Lyme
Disease Network.
A source
of archived Lyme disease information and a discussion group.
http://www.lymenet.org/
The Lyme Disease Foundation by Karen
Vanderhoof-Forschner
This was
the first site related to Lyme disease activism.
The site
appears to be inactive but there is some worthwhile information.
http://www.lyme.org/front.htm
International
Lyme and Associated Diseases Society
http://www.ilads.org/
Lyme
Info is an excellent resource for information.
The
Birth Certificate of Kaiser Permanente
This factual and indisputable film reveals the foundation of the Kaiser
Permanente health plan and provides a perspective on why
Kaiser will not deal with the complexities and expenses associated with
Lyme disease and other tick-borne diseases. It was
created by Juperina Stein who was irrepairably harmed by Kaiser.
The film is less than three minutes in length.
This is at YouTube at: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-l0biRx2PMAMemorable and Not So Memorable Quotes by Lyme
Disease Denialists
This compilation of ludicrous
quotes by certain of the Infectious Diseases Society of America (IDSA) Lyme
disease
guideline authors, their cohorts, and other Lyme disease denialists was
started by an early Lyme disease activist named
Douglas Dodge. This compilation
had not been updated for many years. Some have been recently added. There are
many
more that could be added.
These comments should be
preserved so they are not forgotten.
Healing
Lyme: Natural
Healing And Prevention of Lyme Borreliosis And Its Coinfections
by Stephen
Harrod Buhner
This
book by Stephen Buhner provides some alternative remedies that may be
helpful to Kaiser
patients
who cannot get immediate help.
http://tinyurl.com/3b9q8l
God
Science
The Secret World of Rampant Genetics, Hidden
Illness, and
Biotech Profiteering by PJ. Langhoff.
http://www.godsciencebook.com/
Eugene Weekly
articles in response to an original article on Lyme disease by Sarah
Hendrickson, M.D.,
in her Viewpoint, “Lyme Disease Rare (in Oregon)” (1/28/2010).
http://www.eugeneweekly.com/2010/01/07/views2.html
Under
Our Skin
A dramatic
tale of microbes, medicine and money, this eye-opening new
film investigates
the
untold story of Lyme disease, an emerging
epidemic larger than AIDS. Each year
thousands
go undiagnosed or
misdiagnosed, told that their symptoms are “all in their
head.” Film
Website: http://www.underourskin.com
