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Confronting Lyme Disease: What Patient Stories Teach Us (IPPY Award Winner - Health...
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by Karen P. Yerges and Rita L. Stanley
Sales Rank : 480321
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Paperback: 364 pages
Publisher: BookSurge Publishing February 9, 2006
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1419621653
ISBN-13: 978-1419621659
Product Dimensions:
8.2 x 5.5 x 1 inches
Shipping Weight: 1 pounds
Product Description
Lyme disease is among the most rapidly growing epidemics in the nation with as many as a quarter million new cases each year. Delayed and inadequate treatment can lead to chronic suffering and disability. In this book, fourteen patients reveal how their lives were changed by the debilitating effects of Lyme disease and its co-infections, and by unanticipated medical obstacles. 'This book represents the patients who are seen on a daily basis by physicians, like myself, who treat Lyme disease.' Lesley Ann Fein, M.D., MPH, Medical Director of the Lyme Disease Society, West Caldwell, NJ. 'Confronting Lyme Disease intimately portrays the effects of the spread of Lyme disease in North America. American and Canadian lives are ruined while the medical authorities exercise health cost management and control.' Jim Wilson, President of the Canadian Lyme Disease Foundation
About The Author
Karen “Trish” Yerges is a prolific author with over 150 published articles on the topics of medicine, history, and art. She has extensive interviewing skills and specializes in writing narratives and biographies. Her work has appeared in newspapers and books. She has advised student writers and has received awards and recognition for her writing accomplishments. Lyme disease personally touched her life when her daughter became ill in 1999. She currently lives in northeastern Oregon with her husband and two children. Rita Stanley, Ph.D., has done original research in the areas of physiology and biochemistry and has published in leading scientific journals such as The Journal of Biological Chemistry, Journal of Neurochemistry, and Biology of Reproduction. She was a Lyme disease support group leader for a decade at Good Samaritan Hospital in Portland, Oregon, and served on the advisory and directors' boards at the Lyme Alliance, Inc. A former Lyme patient, she lives with her husband in Portland, Oregon.
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