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 A Book Worth Reading May 03, 2009
Confronting Lyme Disease: What Patient Stories Teach Us (IPPY Award Winner - Health/Medicine/Nutrition)
This is probably the best book I have come across on chronic diseases. I wish there were books like this for other chronic diseases. I came to know about this book when I was trying to help a Lyme disease victim, a friend of a family member. I got this book for them and they said it was very helpful for them. After they returned the book I read it and found how ignorant I was about this disease. This is probably one of the worst diseases to get. Considering all the hurdles these people have to go through having to get proper care. Misdiagnosis seems to be the normal pattern I see for all these brave worriers. My heart goes out for them.
One interesting fact about this book is the authors have provided all the references for people to get additional helpful information. Practically all the symptoms have been listed in the stories of these victims and it is easy to compare with your own symptoms.
I am not new to misdiagnosis by medical doctors. I have seen it all my life and experienced it myself many times. This is a must read book for all the people and not just Lyme disease victims. The most important facts to remember is "Doctors are not gods. They do not know everything. Medical science is very complicated." I only wish some of them are not arrogant but humble and listen to patients. There are a few good doctors we have to be lucky to get them. As it is written in this book please try to learn as much as possible about your disease and get all the help. All the references you need to consult are in this book.
I have been a researcher in medical science for the first 24 years and worked in pharmaceutical companies in developing drugs for the next 24 years of my life. The progress in medical science most of the time is by chemists, biologists, biochemists, pharmacologists and physiologists etc. Medical doctors are not responsible all the advancement in medicine. Dr. Rita Stanley is highly qualified with a background in Physiology and Biochemistry, a victim herself and helped many in a support group. She has Ph.D. from an accredited university and not a mail ordered degree. This is very well written book in a scholarly way.
The first scientist who was responsible for eradicating communicable diseases, Louis Pasteur is a chemist and a biologist. He constantly told every one he is not a medical doctor.
5 of 6 found the following review helpful:
AWARD WINNING BOOK SHOWS COMPASSION FOR LYME SUFFERING Sep 25, 2008
This Award Winning book presents stories of Lyme patients with compassion, intelligence and a keen understanding of what it is like to have this illness. It is a timeless book about the human condition, and hope and humanity radiate through the personal stories of suffering. The reader is left with a better understanding of the personal nature of what illness can do to the body but that it cannot rob the soul of spirit.
The book seems to be a perfect companion to the new documentary "Under Our Skin: The Untold Story of Lyme Disease" and adds an insightful personal element to the book "Cure Unknown".
A few hate-filled recent reviews seem designed to divert the potential reader from this book by labeling it as "junk" and by attempting to negate the positive responses. Neither this book nor its subject matter could be considered anything less than compassionate, uplifting, and humbly intelligent.
2 of 8 found the following review helpful:
 HAD FRIENDS DO 5 STARS! MINE IS IN TRASH CAN Sep 04, 2008
This book came out and vast numbers were asked to write a positive review.
I bought the book, and have since literally thrown it away. No one reading what is out now could possibly find this to be a book with any staying power. It will drift slowly and surely to the back of this topic list due to useless medicial information, that some college freshman Lyme and tick infection patients know better. These non-physicians actually think they know better then real life treatment leaders and emerging thought leaders nationally and internationally. Are they sober? What arrogance!
And as to the stories of bad medicine..... Welcome to the modern world. We will be lucky if any good MD's are around in 25 years.
You were smart to get all your pals to write reviews. The book is trash.
3 of 9 found the following review helpful:
THE WORST LYME BOOK NOW IN PRINT Sep 04, 2008
Lyme disease and its co-infections is supposedly strength of this book. Yet is clear neither author knows anything of serious use in advanced Lyme care and as to co-infections -- Forget about it!
Virtually every book in print is better than this poorly written junk. I know the authors told all their contacts to write a review because the US Constitution does not get this many PERFECT ratings. Get real.
4 of 11 found the following review helpful:
Waste of time and money Aug 15, 2008
Boring. Painful. Tedious. Whining in agony.
If you feel the need to be miserable,buy this amazingly boring book. The ugly cover is the best part of this tomb of despair. These Lyme patient struggles are handled 20x better by the exceptional writing of two real writers:
PJ Langhoff's Large print version of "It's All In Your Head," Patient Stories From the Front Lines: Intimate Aspects of Chronic and Neuropsychiatric Lyme Disease
And by the Discovery Magazine Senior Editor, Pan Weintraub's celebrated masterpiece, Cure Unknown: Inside the Lyme Epidemic.
Why read in agony basic old information when you can read easy lovely prose from the real pros.
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