(An interesting and well-sourced discussion of chronic Lyme disease and institutional pressures against wider acknowledgment and diagnosis of the disease... it's nearly impossible to excerpt, so click "there's more" for the whole article. - promoted by mattw)
by Steven Gottschalk
November 12, 2007
"No men among us need refreshment and renovating more frequently than those who occupy positions in
our schools of learning. Upon none does intellectual staleness more readily
steal "with velvet step, unheeded, softly," but nonetheless
relentlessly....These unrefreshed, unregenerate teachers are often powerful
instruments of harm, and time and again have spread the blight of blind
conservatism in the profession."
- Sir William Osler, Counsels and Ideals
For more than a decade, a battle royale has been waged over the diagnosis and treatment of Lyme disease. An excellent overview of the controversy is provided by Dr. Raphael Stricker, President of the International Lyme and Associated Diseases Society (ILADS), and his associate, Lorraine Johnson in an article published by the medical journal, Expert Review of Anti-infective Therapy:
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