Lyme Harassment in Daily Kos (and Plum Island's Infertility-Agents)

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Subject: Lyme Harassment in Daily Kos

Date: May 26, 2009 9:01 PM

Correction to the article:
It was in *2000,* that I received this letter
back from the NY OPMC on physician harassment
by interest-conflicted parties:
http://www.actionlyme.org/OPMC_CORRUPTION.htm

The New York OPMC gets their "experts" from
BigInsurance, since Kaiser planted their
New England forward buttsez at New York Medical
College as part of the RICO deal with the
patent profiteers in 1990:
http://www.actionlyme.org/CONNOLLY_FISH_WEINSTEIN.htm
Fish, Connolly, and Wormser, the "entrepreneurial
trio," of the ALDF RICO !!
http://www.actionlyme.org/JUNE_13_2005_LETTER_TO_SPITZER.htm
"Dear Mr. Blumenspitzer,
"How boud dems Permanentaze training MDs at NYMC?


http://www.actionlyme.org/ALDF_BOARD.htm
^^^ John J. Connolly sold out this former Catholic
Medical School to the Bigs and then whored himself
out completely. He went on to state that, "BigInsurance
is taking over medicine and the MD groups had
better just get used to the idea:"
http://www.actionlyme.org/USDOJ_COMPLAINT_RICO.htm


1989, IDSA REVIEWS, where Lyme is very serious and
incurable:
http://www.actionlyme.org/CHP_9_IDSA_REVIEWS.htm

1990, Kaiser at NYMC and the ALDF/EUCALB RICO:
http://www.actionlyme.org/CONNOLLY_FISH_WEINSTEIN.htm

Fall, 2000:
The New York Medical Board says they don't give a
crap about interest-conflicted "experts":
http://www.actionlyme.org/OPMC_CORRUPTION.htm
"Blah, blah, blah wedon'tgivvacrap.
:)))

"Ansel Marks, JD"

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Ya know, if I didn't know these Lyme crooks were morons
I would wonder about mycoplasmal lipoproteins,
infertility, and duh Plum Island mycoplasmal sperimenz:
http://www.actionlyme.org/BIOWEAPONS_CORIXA_YALE_TLRS.htm

Especially since 4/13 pregnant women given OspA
vaccination miscarried:
http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&ct=res&cd=1&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.fda.gov%2FOHRMS%2FDOCKETS%2Fac%2F01%2Fslides%2F3680s2.htm&ei=HJAcSummMonYMaTA4dUN&rct=j&q=LYMErix+food+and+drug+administration+january+31%2C+2001&usg=AFQjCNEUkv68Vr9-M6uiEPaymppIuxvf5A&sig2=GfO46Daz26cajSvXBZlhgA


KMDickson
http://www.actionlyme.org
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Tue May 26, 2009 at 02:16:07 PM PDT

May is Lyme Disease Awareness Month

Lyme is the most prevalent vector-borne disease and one of the
fastest spreading diseases throughout the United States, and the
subjects of diagnosis and treatment of Lyme are politically-charged.

This series of diaries is designed to provide information to the
Daily Kos community both for Lyme disease prevention and for those
Kossacks living with Lyme. Because the disease is often missed by
physicians, these diaries may assist an individual or two in pursuing
testing which might otherwise have been missed.

The Lyme Disease Awareness series will be eclectic including
personal statements, informational pieces about the science of Lyme,
and calls to action for community and political advocacy.

We hope you'll all join us in learning about this rampant disease
and the medical/industrial/political morass in which Lyme patients
find themselves.

Collect the complete set of diaries at LymeDiseaseAwareness

Today's diary by: MsGrin LymeDiseaseAwareness

* LymeDiseaseAwareness's diary :: ::
*

In terms of harassment and intimidation for speaking out contrary
to commercial interests of "thought leaders," there is nothing that
can compare in scope and destructiveness as the retaliation that has
been targeted at physicians who treat Lyme disease patients. I know of
at least two "trials" going on before the CT medical licensing board
against doctors treating Lyme disease patients; and then there are the
plethora of cases in New York, Rhode Island, New Jersey, Texas,
Washington, Michigan, Wisconsin, Virginia - and I’m sure I’ve left
some out. It’s always the same theme, and the same clique of "thought
leaders" who are the "experts" who testify against the local docs. No
wonder I have to drive 900 miles to see a doctor to treat my
continuing symptoms of Lyme disease ("treatment failure") - no
physician is so stupid as to allow you in the door!
- Lynn Shepler MD JD, March 31, 2009

There are no physicians in Austin, Texas who officially treat Lyme
disease. The local Lyme support group will attest to that. For the
most part, members of that group go out of state for treatment. The
doctor who is treating me for doesn't make public that he sees Lyme
patients.

Why is it so hush-hush? Why don't doctors admit to working with Lyme
disease?

Because they'll become targets for insurance companies who will
challenge their medical licensing with the state. How do insurance
companies do that? They assert that the physicians are prescribing
treatment which exceeds the IDSA standards of three to four weeks of
oral antibiotics.
(See previous LymeDiseaseAwareness diary on the controversy with
IDSA.)

The message of the show trials is clear. Doctors who
prescribe longer courses of antibiotic treatment, or take
other aggressive measures required for cure, may be
subject to the same treatment as Burrascano, Jemsek,
Jones, and 50 other physicians who have been investigated
or sanctioned by state medical boards. Ironically,
long courses of doxycycline, the most commonly used
antibiotic in Lyme treatment, are routinely prescribed
for acne.

EIR Science & Technology

In the case shown briefly in the video above, Dr. Jemsek had his
medical license suspended for one year in North Carolina based on his
treatment of Lyme patients (the suspension was stayed, and Dr. Jemsek
moved his practice to South Carolina).

The suspension allowed Blue Cross to sue Dr. Jemsek for up to $100
million for treating patients who were insured by them. As you can
imagine, this put him out of business in North Carolina, and threw him
and his practice into bankruptcy. His website describes parts of his
ordeal in detail.

Dr. Jemsek is a nationally known authority on both HIV/AIDS and
Lyme Borreliosis Complex (LBC), having participated in numerous
regional and national/international conferences concerned with these
topics (see curriculum vitae). For well over two decades, Dr. Jemsek
was acknowledged as the region’s leading care provider in HIV/AIDS. In
early 1983, Dr. Jemsek diagnosed the first case of HIV/AIDS in North
Carolina. This seminal event foreshadowed Dr. Jemsek’s first clinical
trial in HIV/AIDS research in 1989, a trial which involved AZT, the
first drug approved for use in HIV/AIDS treatment. This date in 1989
marked the beginning of an uninterrupted 16-year legacy in which Dr.
Jemsek and his research staff were at the forefront of FDA-approved
clinical trials for new drugs for HIV/AIDS treatment. For 23 years,
Dr. Jemsek and his staff provided innovative and ground breaking
medical care for the largest population of HIV/AIDS patients served by
the private health sector in the Carolinas, until his practice was
involuntarily halted in the spring of 2006 by the actions against him
by the North Carolina Medical Board (NCMB) and Blue Cross Blue Shield
of North Carolina (BCBSNC).

I'm aware of how the licensing issue works in Texas because I've
attended congressional hearings on how the Texas Medical Board
receives complaints about physicians anonymously. I'm know of
physicians who have had complaints filed against them where the only
likely complainer was the insurance company because the patients in
question were treated successfully, attested to being satisfied with
their treatment, and claimed no knowledge of the complaints filed, and
sent letters of support for the physician. The only unhappy party was
the insurance company which (anthropomorphically) may have felt it
paid too much for treatment and seemingly went after the license of
the physician so it could stop having to pay for expensive treatment.
This works as a warning to other physicians who might want to
prescribe expensive treatment.

Here's an account from New York from 2001:

In New York, we met with representatives from the OPMC, Health
Department and the Governor's office, motivated by the fact that
almost 60 percent of doctors who treat chronic Lyme disease in New
York State have faced OPMC scrutiny the past year. At a meeting this
year, OPMC reps said that "some of our best tips come from insurance
companies." New York law prevents doctors from ever knowing the
original complaint or complainant, thus treating doctors run the risk
of spending tens of thousands of dollars defending their right to
treat a patient, even when the patient has improved, the patient is
not complaining, and the patient objects to his or her records being
used against the doctor.

The point of this diary is not to advocate for a particular form of
treatment - what we'd like to point out is that the dispute over Lyme
treatment seems to be impacted by financial concerns driven by the
insurance industry, the consequence of which is that Lyme patients do
not get diagnosed or treated.

Lyme Disease is a hot potato: Although there are believed to be
upwards of 200,000 new cases of Lyme Disease a year in the U.S., most
physicians are not aware of the symptoms and do not order tests for
it, leaving many patients to live with untreated disease for years.

What we need are better tests to discern the disease, and better
understanding about what goes on for patients who are not cured with a
month of oral antibiotics and how to make them well.

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