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Hello. The Winchester Orchestra could really use the help from the Lyme disease community. The donations are way down – and the concert on April 30th for ILADS is in jeopardy. Would you kindly send this attachment along to friends, businesses and corporations on your lists?
The conference was a huge success thanks to the innumerable contributions by board members, vendors, volunteers, donors, hotel staff, ILADS webmaster, program committee members ?
Although the ILADS guidelines are no longer listed on the NGC, they have not expired. The current guidelines will remain in effect until they are replaced by ILADS revised guidelines, which ILADS is currently in the process of updating.
ILADS president elect Robert Bransfield and Dr. Zemel on the radio
The first time I met a group of severely disabled Lyme disease patients I spent hours listening to their stories, some of them heartbreaking, and mourned, with them, their lives of frustration and pain. A month later, when I met the same patients again, several could not recall me. At first I was insulted. Had I been that forgettable, my empathy that banal?
Robert Bransfield is a psychiatrist with a practice in Red Bank, New Jersey, along the sleepy Navesink River, just inland from the glitz and neon of the Jersey shore. Tall and professorial, with a charm and humility so natural it catches you by surprise, Bransfield seems an unlikely rebel, but experience with patients at the heart of the Lyme epidemic has left him little choice. The first Lyme disease patient he brought back from the brink worked as an assistant to a veterinarian, making her risk for exposure especially high.
If Sherr possesses a special reverence for life, it might be because she, herself, has journeyed back from the depths of a once-inexplicable, truly terrifying, illness. The illness, it would turn out, was a combination of Lyme and other tickborne diseases. Sherr's experience, ultimately published in a medical journal, was so surreal it read like an anecdote right out of Oliver Sacks (the pioneering neurologist and author of Awakenings and The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat.) In fact, Sherr's description of her patient experience was so compelling and precise that Sacks himself wrote an introductory note. When physicians experience disease for themselves, Sacks said, a special level of understanding and "a unique double narrative" can result.
New Book Exposes Junk Science, Conflicts of Interest, Disease Guidelines Affecting Millions Critical evidence revealed about IDSA guidelines, science, researchers examined in recent Anti-Trust Investigation
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