Guest guest Posted November 3, 1999 Report Share Posted November 3, 1999 Hope this was not already posted, but if so it bears repeating....so after reading this, tell me do you think Steere deserves any kind of break from the Lyme community???? Not me! Marta NJ >http://www.bostonherald.com/bostonherald/health/lyme11031999.htm > >Patients to protest talk by Lyme disease discoverer > by Lasalandra > > Wednesday, November 3, 1999 > >A renowned Boston doctor who is credited for naming Lyme disease in 1978 >is expected to run into a group of hostile patients when he gives a talk >on the illness today at the National Institutes of Health. > > Members of the Lyme Alliance, a group of activist patients, say they >will protest Dr. Allan Steere's talk, claiming his conservative approach >to treatment discredits them and the doctors who believe them. > >``He's giving a talk as part of a series honoring people for being >astute clinicians, and that's really a slap in our faces,'' said Ellen >Lubarski of New York City. > >The protesters say Steere's guidelines for diagnosis and treatment of >the illness are ``obsolete, biologically unfounded and ethically >suspect.'' > >Steere, of New England Medical Center, says Lyme Disease is being >overdiagnosed and overtreated. He says it can be cured fully with four >weeks of antibiotics. > > But members of the Lyme Alliance believe the Lyme bacteria can linger >in the body, causing problems for years, and that such patients must be >treated with powerful antibiotics for months, years or even a lifetime. > >They say Steere's emphatic opposition to the possibility of lingering >illness has caused their insurance companies to refuse coverage and say >that his testimony against their doctors before medical licensing boards >has caused some of them to stop giving aggressive treatments. > >Steere's 1993 paper, which claimed the disease was being overdiagnosed >and overtreated, ``was the turning point,'' Lubarski said. ``The >insurance companies jumped on it.'' > >Rita Stanley, a patient from Portland, Ore., said doctors who prescribe >long-term antibiotic treatments are being harassed ``by Steere and his >cronies.'' > >She noted Steere testified at a hearing against a Michigan doctor who >ended up being disciplined for mistreating patients and for fraud based >on allegations he took money from insurance companies by falsely >diagnosing patient with Lyme disease. > > Coughlin of Mashpee, state coordinator of the Massachusetts Lyme >Disease Coalition, said many patients who plan to attend the protest >``have gone to (Steere) and have been told they don't have Lyme Disease, >only to find out afterwards that they do.'' > >A delayed diagnosis, he said, ``is a big problem. If you don't get >treated right away, it gets into your central nervous system and becomes >difficult to eradicate.'' > >Steere's talk today on Lyme arthritis is part of the NIH Director's >Astute Clinician Lecture series, established to honor an American >scientist who has observed an unusual clinical occurrence and by >investigating it has opened an important new avenue of research. > >That occurred in the 1970s when Steere, then a rheumatology fellow at >Yale, looked into a cluster of juvenile rheumatoid arthritis cases in >Lyme, Conn., and eventually showed that the illness was the result of a >tick bite. > >Steere said this week that the criticism directed at him is based on >politics, not science. ``It's not rational,'' he said. > >He said he is rigorous about requiring scientific evidence for the >diagnosis of Lyme Disease and said there are people sick from other >illnesses that persist in saying they are Lyme victims. > >While some patients may have persistent pain and fatigue syndromes after >their treatment for Lyme Disease, he said, ``my experience is that >those pain and fatigue syndromes can be treated more effectively in >other ways'' than with antibiotic therapy. > >He said his opinion is in step with the Infectious Disease Society of >America and with the majority of the studies on the illness. > > Concerning his testimony against the Michigan doctor, Steere said he >was asked to do so by the state's attorney general and said he joined a >number of Michigan doctors. " > > >Good job Ellen, , Rita!! > >And there he (Steere) goes again with the: we're a " bunch of crazies " >business again. > >Now I don't feel sorry for him at all. >I used to feel kind of sorry for him because he >is not too smart. But, that was a too low blow >for me to have any compassion (and a weak spot >for that pretty face) any longer. > >Kathleen > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted March 6, 2008 Report Share Posted March 6, 2008 Can someone re-post the link for this Boston Herald Article that was mentioned about fluoride? I didn't see the link posted. Thanks Article from the Boston Herald. Please pass on. Get all fluoride out of your house, and water and start waking up. Warn kids what their Doctor's may ask about. Violating kids and parents rights. > > Luckily since I've gotten Bobby on supplements, clean food, and an organic diet, he never needs to see a Doctor. Go figure. > > Be well. Alison. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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