To the editors:
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Dr. John P. Quinn’s letter (in the February 26 issue) criticizing the January 22 article on environmental illness and candida is a classic example of the proverbial blind men examining the elephant, each with his own slant, finding what he is familiar with. When will such doctors stop hiding their ignorance behind obfuscatory language, condemning an extensive amount of clinical evidence simply because it does not come within their purview? I would instead expect that a true physician would treat sufferers with compassion and respect, rather than scorn and contempt (“cling ferociously to any oddball theory emanating from the . . . National Enquirer”). I would expect him to be glad that thousands of patients have been helped by clinical ecology, a form of medicine that functions without prescribing most modern medications, many of which have done more harm than good (and the results of which are sometimes referred to as “iatrogenic,” or doctor-induced, disease).
Lynn Lawson
