Cure Unknown: Inside the Lyme Epidemic
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| Rating | : | 4.81 (756 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0312378130 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 448 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-04-16 |
| Language | : | English |
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"Excellent account of Lyme disease & current medical policy" according to free thinker. Ms. Weintraub, editor of the science magazine Discover, provides a detailed and well-researched account of her family's struggle with Lyme disease and the devastation it can cause. Also included are other gripping case-studies, a very interesting and useful history of the discovery of this tick-born illness, and a summary of current research and findings . Explains the public health disaster that is Lyme Disease paulie Many have suggested people give this book to their doctors. Great idea, but do not be surprised if their docs just dismiss the whole idea of chronic Lyme. Patients would have better luck getting their docs to watch the Lyme documentary Under Our Skin. I did that with a few of my Lyme-denying docs, altho it was like pulling teeth.I was misdiagnosed for dec. Rockie said A MUST HAVE book to navigate lyme waters!. Thanks to Pam Weintraub for combining her plethora of areas of expertise to compile such an amazing, factual, MUST HAVE book! Having been a lyme disease survivor and fighting the disease for over "A MUST HAVE book to navigate lyme waters!" according to Rockie. Thanks to Pam Weintraub for combining her plethora of areas of expertise to compile such an amazing, factual, MUST HAVE book! Having been a lyme disease survivor and fighting the disease for over 25 years, I've spent over 6 figures and have seen over A MUST HAVE book to navigate lyme waters! Rockie Thanks to Pam Weintraub for combining her plethora of areas of expertise to compile such an amazing, factual, MUST HAVE book! Having been a lyme disease survivor and fighting the disease for over 25 years, I've spent over 6 figures and have seen over 40 doctors, been in countless hospitals and told to go home and die twice. I have spent time in both the I. 0 doctors, been in countless hospitals and told to go home and die twice. I have spent time in both the I. 5 years, I've spent over 6 figures and have seen over A MUST HAVE book to navigate lyme waters! Rockie Thanks to Pam Weintraub for combining her plethora of areas of expertise to compile such an amazing, factual, MUST HAVE book! Having been a lyme disease survivor and fighting the disease for over 25 years, I've spent over 6 figures and have seen over 40 doctors, been in countless hospitals and told to go home and die twice. I have spent time in both the I. 0 doctors, been in countless hospitals and told to go home and die twice. I have spent time in both the I
In this nuanced picture of the intense controversy and crippling uncertainty surrounding Lyme disease, Pamela Weintraub sheds light on one of the angriest medical disputes raging today. Almost everything about Lyme disease turned out to be deeply controversial, from the microbe causing the infection, to the length and type of treatment and the kind of practitioner needed. On one side of the fight, the scientists who first studied Lyme describe a disease transmitted by a deer tick that is hard to catch but easy to cure no matter how advanced the case. When Pamela Weintraub, a science journalist, learned that her oldest son tested positive for Lyme disease, she thought she had found an answer to the symptoms that had been plaguing her family for yearsbut her nightmare had just begun. As patients struggle for answers, once-treatable infections become chronic. The most comprehensive book ever written about the past, present and future of Lyme disease, Cure Unknown exposes the ticking clock of a raging epidemic and the vulnerability we all share.. Instead of just swollen knees and a rash, patients can exp
Pamela Weintraub is a senior editor at Discover magazine. Previously editor in chief of OMNI and consulting editor at Psychology Today, she has covered science and biomedicine for national media for more than twenty-five years. She lives in Brooklyn, NY.
Weintraub, a senior editor at Discover magazine, uses her family’s protracted Lyme odyssey as the jumping off point for an exploration into the history, politics and, predominantly, the patient experience of the tick-borne disease.” --- Susan Morse, Washington Post. And Weintraub said, theseresearchers, by and large, confirm what many Lyme patients have learned through bitter experience -- the bacteria can cause a persistent infection that may not be treated easily by a couple ofweeks of antibiotics.” --Robert Miller, Danbury News-Times ”The view from inside the tick tornado: Sober but scaryA science and health journalist, Weintraub writes clearly and passionately about a mysterious illness that has confounded physicians, patients andscientists for more than three de