Is Chronic Lyme Disease a Mass Conspiracy to Defraud Insurance Companies?
The answer according to many medical doctors appears to be, “Yes!” In fact we have come to a morally dubious time where doctors are registering serious ethical charges against fellow MD practitioners who are helping their patients recover from Lyme disease in spite of great personal risk.
The logical question that begs to be anwered is, “If the patients are recovering, then why are these doctors being legally charged with misconduct and run out of town?”
“Why indeed?”
Parents who have taken their children into ER after infectious tick bites (and the ensuing flu-like symptoms) are enraged when the symptoms return a month later after dutifully administering the three weeks of Doxycyclin. They are lectured like school children that there is no relationship between the original Lyme and the new symptoms. Desperate to find help for their children, they follow the medical “specialists” as test after test is perfomed, all the while watching the health of their child deteriorate even further. With previous health spiralling into complete disfunction physically, socially and emotionally, loving parents spare no expense as they follow blindly as test after test is ordered to determine the culprit of such emotional and physical torment.
The pathetic response from mainstream doctors rests on the dangers surrounding long-term antibiotic treatment in spite of the fact that adolescence are routinely given 2 or more years of antibiotics for acne. Is radiation and chemotherapy dangerous? Yes, of course. But in spite of such a dangerous treatment, there is NO medical debate about the necessity of desperate measures for such a lethal condition as cancer.
And amongst the victims of chronic Lyme disease, there is no debate at all regarding the dangers of treatment. In fact, most of us with severe chronic neurological Lyme disease, are willing to do anything, yes, anything to restore our health and vitality. And for our children?
Months later, after the conventional three weeks of antibiotics, many will watch in horror as the illness progresses in their beloved children to the loss of such basic physical abilities as walking, talking - and some even lose their memory of siblings and even parents. Yet the conventional doctors insist that the Lyme disease is gone and that the remaining symptoms are “phantom” symptoms.
One doctor who will remain nameless actually told a patient in debilitating pain that any doctor prescribing narcotic pain relievers for Lyme disease should have their license removed! Where is the compassion? Where is the medical curiosity to determine why hundreds of thousands of patients are suffering with “phantom” pains - oh yes, and dying from “phantom pains.”
Thankfully many parents connect to the “Lyme Underground”where they are finally given answers to their questions, and frequently rejoice in the complete recovery for their children. However, the abandoned doctors are filled with righteous indignation and have gone after those courageous Lyme doctors with a vengeance bordering on criminal intent.
The Hypocratic Oath (modern version) bears repeating here:
I swear to fulfill, to the best of my ability and judgment, this covenant:
I will respect the hard-won scientific gains of those physicians in whose steps I walk, and gladly share such knowledge as is mine with those who are to follow.
I will apply, for the benefit of the sick, all measures [that] are required, avoiding those twin traps of overtreatment and therapeutic nihilism.
I will remember that there is art to medicine as well as science, and that warmth, sympathy, and understanding may outweigh the surgeon’s knife or the chemist’s drug.
I will not be ashamed to say “I know not,” nor will I fail to call in my colleagues when the skills of another are needed for a patient’s recovery.
I will respect the privacy of my patients, for their problems are not disclosed to me that the world may know. Most especially must I tread with care in matters of life and death. If it is given me to save a life, all thanks. But it may also be within my power to take a life; this awesome responsibility must be faced with great humbleness and awareness of my own frailty. Above all, I must not play at God.
I will remember that I do not treat a fever chart, a cancerous growth, but a sick human being, whose illness may affect the person’s family and economic stability. My responsibility includes these related problems, if I am to care adequately for the sick.
I will prevent disease whenever I can, for prevention is preferable to cure.
I will remember that I remain a member of society, with special obligations to all my fellow human beings, those sound of mind and body as well as the infirm.
If I do not violate this oath, may I enjoy life and art, respected while I live and remembered with affection thereafter. May I always act so as to preserve the finest traditions of my calling and may I long experience the joy of healing those who seek my help.
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Those of us suffering from Lyme wonder what has happened to the dedication of medical mainstream with respect to Lyme disease.
The ugly underbelly of this harrowing gauntlet of Lyme disease (or most especially chronic neurological Lyme disease) are illuminated without having to look very hard.
The insurance companies line up behind the IDSA, and the governing board of IDSA has lost all credibility when the Attorney General of Connecticut revealed that nine (9) out of fourteen (14) board members have direct financial benefit from their “power” over Lyme Treatment Guidelines.
Great appreciation and gratitude goes to CT Attorney General Blumenthal who courageously launched an anti-trust investigation into IDSA charging abuse of monopoly power and exclusion of other points of view. We can only hope that the appointed independent panel will help revise this document in a meaningful way.
Meanwhile, the infuriated parents who are caught between political machinations, and the personal devastation of watching the terrifying decline of their precious child’s health, are being battered financially as insurance companies reject claims that routinely mount in the tens of thousands of dollars.
Additionally, due to the crack-down on “Lyme-Literate” doctors, there are fewer and fewer who are available to treat these sick children.
In spite of the litigious dangers, the patients of these vilified doctors are coming out in huge numbers to donate to legal defense, and to testify to reliably compassionate and effective care.
Instead of honor and celebration for healing the many hundreds of children that just one noted Pediatrician Lyme expert has helped, a vile and despicable law suit has been waged - not by disillusioned patients (or parents of patients), buy by pencil-pushing administrators of the IDSA Guidelines. Hundreds have come out in support for this treating physician including large amounts of dollars for a legal defense fund.
Certainly there is something very wrong with a medical system that files criminal charges against doctors who are successfully treating these young children (while keeping their fingers pressed hard in the numerous holes in the proverbial dam.) It is only a matter of time before the wall comes crashing down, and the truth about the stealthy Borrelia spirochete is published far and wide in a desperate effort to find reliable methods for testing and most importantly a cure.
My mother tip-toes across her dark basement room to offer me fresh water to drink, which brings about moaning from my prone body, too weak to sit up and hold the glass, too weak to even change positions, and too weak to drag a pillow over my head to keep the painful light from my burning eyes.
I burst into tears again, the frustration is too massive to contemplate. My mother wraps her arms around me and cries too.
When will this nightmare end?
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