Cure Unknown: Inside the Lyme Epidemic | 
 enlarge | Author: Pamela Weintraub
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
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Media: Hardcover
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Pages: 432
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Dimensions (in): 9.4 x 6.4 x 1.5
ISBN: 0312378122
Dewey Decimal Number: 616.92
EAN: 9780312378127
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Publication Date: June 17, 2008
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A groundbreaking and controversial narrative investigation into the science, history, medical politics, and patient experience of Lyme disease told by a science journalist whose entire family contracted the disease. Pamela Weintraub paints a nuanced picture of the intense controversy and crippling uncertainty surrounding Lyme disease and sheds light on one of the angriest medical disputes raging today. She also reveals her personal odyssey through the land of Lyme after she, her husband and their two sons became seriously ill with the disease beginning in the 1990s. From the microbe causing the infection and the definition of the disease, to the length and type of treatment and the kind of practitioner needed, Lyme is a hotbed of contention. With a CDC-estimated 200,000-plus new cases of Lyme disease a year, it has surpassed both AIDS and TB as the fastest-spreading infectious disease in the U.S. Yet alarmingly, in many cases, because the disease often eludes blood tests and not all patients exhibit the classic "bulls-eye" rash and swollen joints, doctors are woefully unable or unwilling to diagnose Lyme. When that happens, once-treatable infections become chronic, inexorably disseminating to cause disabling conditions that may never be cured. Weintraub reveals why the Lyme epidemic has been allowed to explode, why patients are dismissed, and what can be done to raise awareness in the medical community and find a cure. The most comprehensive book ever written about the past, present and future of Lyme disease, this exposes the ticking clock of a raging epidemic.
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Brilliantly written; an engrossing journey through the mire of Lyme Diesease July 23, 2008
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
This book has to be the most comprehensive compilation of material available regarding this hidious and pandemic disease. Kudos to Pam Weintraub for not only overcoming her own duel with Lyme disease, but for putting this together in a chohesive, educational and sobering way. Brilliantly written - this book is a must read for anyone suspecting Lyme disease. As others have mentioned in their reviews, this book needs to be shared with doctors everywhere. I am giving my copy to my Internist (at his request) and purchasing another copy to share with my Cardiologist & Neurologist. Having been recently diagnosed with chronic Lyme disease & Babesiosis myself, I found this book oddly comforting from a patient' perspective. As anyone who has dealt with chronic Lyme already knows themselves, there is a madness involved within the medical community that a patient will endure before a diagnosis is ever reached. This book has provided me a veritable wealth of information.
Thank you Pam for your courage, perserverance and compassion in telling this story!
LJ9 July 20, 2008
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
Are you interested in the TRUTH about Lyme Disease? This book is riddled with in-depth, multi-faceted research, information and historical data which clear the murky waters that have perpetually flooded Lyme Disease. This book is utterly amazing; a must read.
Denying a medical reality July 18, 2008
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
I wish every doctor who said 'you can't have Lyme disease' would read Pamela Weintraub's book. Sadly, her family's experience is not unique or 'far out' but frightenly similar to that of many of us. She did a fabulous job of telling her family's story, while raising awareness (accurately!) of the medical/ethical/scientific crisis that surrounds this disease. Ms. Weintraub clearly describes the medical travesty that has allowed lives to be ruined. While Lyme is often thought of as an 'east coast disease,' we share her story here in Oregon. Despite doctors being woefully uninformed, they adamantly deny the existence of this serious, often chronic, disabling disease. This includes our state medical university that patently claims patients can't possibly have it! People are suffering and lives are being wasted because a medical mystery is being denied rather than investigated. Ms. W. tells the whole story extremely well!
Buy this book for everyone you know!!! July 14, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Both my husband and very good friend have Lyme disease and a good friend of ours just bought us this book. I have not been able to put this book down!!!! We had two birthday parties to go to this weekend and we were reading it at the parties, we were reading it in bed before we went to sleep and before and during our morning coffee. I have heard bits and pieces of the information she has in this book, but she puts it together so amazingly well and it is so easy to read and understand. She is such an amazing writer. We are buying copies for every friend. In fact, we would really like to find it on CD so that our lazy family members will perhaps listen to it if they won't put the energy into reading it. (Hopefully they won't read this, if you do, well, we love you;-)
To summarize: BUY THIS BOOK
Marvelously written without hyperbole July 12, 2008
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
I've been searching for a long time for truth about Lyme disease. (A cure would be a wonderful thing, too, but for the moment I've settled for the simple truth.) Pamela Weintraub has done a terrific job presenting what I believe to be the truth. Until now I've found only two sides in the Lyme 'issue'. On one side of the issue has been my family doctor (and others like him) who has told me that the disease is easily curable with a short treatment of antibiotics and there's no such thing as chronic Lyme. On the other side of the issue I've met people who'd be well suited wearing hats made out of tinfoil while chanting and carrying crystals. I've had Lyme disease for a long time. I'm not a malingerer. I've not been collecting disability payments from either an insurance company or from the government. I've been affected by the 'mental fog' that has been described by other sufferers but not to the point that I'll fall for the quacks who populate the fringes of the disease. (While I certainly understand why sufferers are driven to the quacks - through the complete lack of understanding by the 'normal' medical community, I'm not there yet.) My version of the disease has not been easily treatable with antibiotics, the muscle, nerve, and bone pain has been excruciating. My doctor, though well meaning and kind, has been mistaken. I will purchase a copy of the book for him. This book should be read by anyone interested in or being treated for the disease.
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