Stop the Persecution of Lyme Literate Doctors!
- by: http://www.drerniemurakami.com
- recipient: To All Honorary Members, Ladies, and Gentlemen;
The Canadian medical community, including all levels of pertinent governments and educational institutions are in denial about the prevalence of Lyme in Canada. It is the fastest growing vector borne illness in the nation and thousands of lyme sufferers go undiagnosed and untreated for years before proper diagnosis is finally reached. Our medical practitioners on all levels lack the education to properly diagnose Lyme clinically. Present Canadian protocol tests are not sensitive enough to properly diagnose serologically. Treatment protocols do not benefit the cyclical nature of the bacterium, leading to devastating symptom return. Most doctors deny lyme exists, believe there is no cystic form of the bacterium, and doubt the long term therapy treatments.
Canadians are having to go to the US for treatments, at huge personal expenses.
Furthermore, doctors who ARE Lyme literate are being harrassed by their own Colleges and peers, defamed, ridiculed publicly, and having their licences to practice REVOKED.
This has got to stop.
We DEMAND that laws be put in place to stop the harrassment, defamation, illegal confiscation of patient files, and license revokings against Canadian Doctors.
Our letter will be mailed to the Chief Scientist of Health Canada as well as our Prime Minister, the Right Honorable Stephen Harper, heads of all other Federal Political Parties; The Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada, the CDC of Canada and the US, as well as the Ministry of Health.
Canadians are having to go to the US for treatments, at huge personal expenses.
Furthermore, doctors who ARE Lyme literate are being harrassed by their own Colleges and peers, defamed, ridiculed publicly, and having their licences to practice REVOKED.
This has got to stop.
We DEMAND that laws be put in place to stop the harrassment, defamation, illegal confiscation of patient files, and license revokings against Canadian Doctors.
Our letter will be mailed to the Chief Scientist of Health Canada as well as our Prime Minister, the Right Honorable Stephen Harper, heads of all other Federal Political Parties; The Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada, the CDC of Canada and the US, as well as the Ministry of Health.
We the undersigned, duly express our concerns about the very real persecution, harrassment and defamation of Canadian doctors who rightfully choose to treat Lyme patients in a manner that has been proven to work. Doctors who have chosen a path in medicine and have sworn to the Hippocratic Oath, are being penalized harshly, and illegally have patient confidentiality violated simply for treating Lyme Disease and other tick-borne illnesses outside of the recommended 30 day antibiotic treatment.
Lyme literate doctors have discovered that the one month of protocol antibiotic treatment simply is not sufficient to kill off the borrelia burgdorferi spirochaete, the bacterium responsible for Lyme disease, due to the proven fact that the bacterium goes into a "cystic" stage (dormant egg stage) that is inpenetrable by the antibiotics. This stage then progresses after some time to produce a new generation of bacterium which quickly re-infect the host body.
By extending the treatment plan of antibiotic therapy to longer durations, the cystic "hatchlings" can be killed off as well. Without this, re-infection is imminent and happens in most cases. Long term Lyme leads to severe irreparable neurological damages.
The Canadian Center for Disease Control follows the IDSA guidelines coming from the US, which, earlier in the spring of 2008, were found to be heavily biased formed by anti-lyme believers and insurance company representatives. The Board in place at the time has been replaced with new un-biased individuals and the guidelines are currently being re-drawn.
Canada still abides to these guidelines, even though many Lyme literate doctors have offered their knowledge and discoveries about borrelia burgdorferi bacterium to try to make necessary changes. It has fallen on deaf ears.
Instead, these doctors become harrassed by their College of Physicians and Surgeons, who begin calling them incompetent and ridiculing them among peers and professors. They are forced to take re-training courses, have their offices raided illegally by College Board members ("investigators") and Lyme patient files are being illegally confiscated. The harrassment continues through ridiculous lengths, sometimes years, often with College-directed mediation (which in itself is futile and highly biased). In all cases, the harrassed doctors are forced to resign due to undue stress, or simply have their licences revoked if they don't.
This type of behaviour among the peer group that is supposed to be representative of our Medical practioners is appalling.
We demand there to be changes made to existing laws, and new laws put in place to protect Canadian physicians, whether rural or urban, from harrassment and licence revokes from the Medical community supposedly standing behind them. It is the Physicians right, and the right of suffering Canadians, to have a Health Care system that works for and by the people, and for the doctors to be able to treat disease to the best of their abilities.
Science evolves like everything else, and the time has come for changes to be made for the betterment of all Canadians.
Please hear our plea. Be informed about the unbiased facts surrounding Lyme and put these laws in place.
Sign PetitionSign PetitionLyme literate doctors have discovered that the one month of protocol antibiotic treatment simply is not sufficient to kill off the borrelia burgdorferi spirochaete, the bacterium responsible for Lyme disease, due to the proven fact that the bacterium goes into a "cystic" stage (dormant egg stage) that is inpenetrable by the antibiotics. This stage then progresses after some time to produce a new generation of bacterium which quickly re-infect the host body.
By extending the treatment plan of antibiotic therapy to longer durations, the cystic "hatchlings" can be killed off as well. Without this, re-infection is imminent and happens in most cases. Long term Lyme leads to severe irreparable neurological damages.
The Canadian Center for Disease Control follows the IDSA guidelines coming from the US, which, earlier in the spring of 2008, were found to be heavily biased formed by anti-lyme believers and insurance company representatives. The Board in place at the time has been replaced with new un-biased individuals and the guidelines are currently being re-drawn.
Canada still abides to these guidelines, even though many Lyme literate doctors have offered their knowledge and discoveries about borrelia burgdorferi bacterium to try to make necessary changes. It has fallen on deaf ears.
Instead, these doctors become harrassed by their College of Physicians and Surgeons, who begin calling them incompetent and ridiculing them among peers and professors. They are forced to take re-training courses, have their offices raided illegally by College Board members ("investigators") and Lyme patient files are being illegally confiscated. The harrassment continues through ridiculous lengths, sometimes years, often with College-directed mediation (which in itself is futile and highly biased). In all cases, the harrassed doctors are forced to resign due to undue stress, or simply have their licences revoked if they don't.
This type of behaviour among the peer group that is supposed to be representative of our Medical practioners is appalling.
We demand there to be changes made to existing laws, and new laws put in place to protect Canadian physicians, whether rural or urban, from harrassment and licence revokes from the Medical community supposedly standing behind them. It is the Physicians right, and the right of suffering Canadians, to have a Health Care system that works for and by the people, and for the doctors to be able to treat disease to the best of their abilities.
Science evolves like everything else, and the time has come for changes to be made for the betterment of all Canadians.
Please hear our plea. Be informed about the unbiased facts surrounding Lyme and put these laws in place.
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