When you go out in the woods today; be careful what your doctor will say

Hey folks, I just saw something very troubling on the CBC show Nature of Things; it was about Lyme disease. Usually I keep my rantings about social problems separate from fishing issues. This concerns anglers because most of them are also hunters; this concerns everybody so I am reposting on our Shark page. This is about the war going on in the medical communities, how they are treating Lyme disease. The war has been ratcheted up a few notches; we have some terrified doctors, patients and now the news media is running scared. Remember we are all 90% foreign DNA, mitochondria, by volume; we only have 10% human DNA in our bodies. This battle for supremacy is being fought under the microscope. The consequences for picking the wrong side of the war will have serious implications. Usually I have an opinion; I do an extraordinary amount of research before I post my rants; I have no clue about this, except to stay super healthy; stop eating garbage. 

The question remains; which side to pick if it happened to us. On one side of the battle line, the doctors swear long term antibiotics is the only solution. The other side is vehemently opposed, to the extent they are apparently threatening doctors who continue to prescribe long term antibiotics. My impression was, their lives are really being threatened. Seriously folks, this looks like it is shaping up to be some sort of epic biomass war, of good vs evil with us caught in the middle. Microbes fighting for control of our bodies; freaky? People are very afraid. I am not trying to instill panic, just the opposite. We need to force the issue and make the bastard talk,so we can find out what the hell is going on. They have no right to hide any of this from us. 

The difference between then and now is: if you are an infected Canadian living out west; you now have a much bigger problem. Your doctor will not give you the only treatment that has been consistently proven to work; long term intravenous antibiotics. You will now need to travel to the good old USA, and it will cost you $100,000 per year to save your life; apparently. Thank God for the decent doctors in the USA for accepting Canadian patients; I will be going there myself for my accident injury, as I have a few problems with the system myself. One freaked out Canadian doctor reportedly cut off 30 patients, pulled the plug on the antibiotics, and screamed at one female patient "get out and never return" "you have no idea of the heat I am getting from the College of Physician and Surgeons supplying you with antibiotics" is what he said to her. How about that? My impression was the 30 people saw it as a death sentence from their family doctor. We have a similar College in Ontario, it is a question of time until the policy moves over to Ontario. 

How About That eh?

Most people knows about the standing beef I have against a particular local doctor and the wimpy cowards he is in league with; but that is another story. Although CBC did not come out and say it directly on TV, the impression most people walked away with is these doctors are literally afraid for their lives. That's how I saw it; I recognized that fear in doctors. You will need to see the show and figure it out yourself. My friends know all about my opinion of our state run news media. I have sent them many scathing letters accusing them of cover ups etc, etc. All true. It is nice to see them on the run, backtracking; I guess they figured it would never happen to them; wrong. 

Even CBC people have to go to the doctors once in awhile themselves. Tough decision given the devastating long term affects of antibiotic treatment as it wreaks havoc with your good microbes. You are toast if you do, and apparently you are toast if you don't do it. As if that is not bad enough the bigger problem is disturbing as the level of hostilities taking place in the medical community; I have never seen it like this. Can't help but think big Pharma has their dirty hand in all this. We are not talking about some doctors losing hospital privileges or even their licences; this is more serious. What would I do if it were me or a family member? Personally, now, I would go with the long term antibiotics. I would also hope I made the right choice. Everybody will need to make up their own minds; an informed decision