re update help was what is this is it lyme s in article mar equator com jod equator com john setel o donnell writes i shouldn t have to be posting here physicians should know the lyme literature beyond steere co s denial merry go round patients should get correctly diagnosed and treated why do you think steere is doing this isn t he acting in good faith after all as the discoverer of lyme for all intents and purposes the more famous lyme gets the more famous steere gets i don t see the ulterior motive here it is easy for me to see it the those physicians who call everything lyme and treat everything there is a lot of money involved i m a computer engineer not a doctor jim i was building a computer manufacturing company when i got lyme i lost several years of my life to near total disability partially as a result the company failed taking with it over jobs my savings and everything i d worked for for years i m one of the lucky ones in that i found a physician through the lyme foundation and now can work almost full time although i have persistent infection and still suffer a variety of sypmtoms and now i try to follow the lyme literature well it is tragic what has happened to you but it doesn t necessarily make you the most objective source of information about it if your whole life is focussed around this you may be too emotionally involved to be advising other people who may or may not have lyme certainly advocacy of more research on lyme would not be out of order though and people like you can be very effective there gordon banks n jxp skepticism is the chastity of the intellect and geb cadre dsl pitt edu it is shameful to surrender it too soon
