Sounds like something we need to do. At one
point in time I used ATM for Acute Transverse
Myelitis which is the correct Dx for most of us.
If the lobbyists can't remember what ATM stands
for maybe they'll think of an ATM machine which gives
money and that's what we need for more research.
Roger
Aurore wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I was telling a friend who's done some lobbying on the Hill on natural
> medicine stuff about the upcomng visit of Gunny and Phil.
>
> She pointed out that those folks associate TM with transcendental
> meditation, which they don't like. She suggested we add an extra letter or
> something to distinguish our TM from the other TM. She said if you get
> those folks in the wrong frame of mind, even for a silly reason like
> confusing initials, you're sunk.
>
> I'm attached to TM after using it on this list for quite some time, but I do
> see her point. She suggested adding another letter, like TMS, the s being
> the last letter of myelitis, or we could say it was transverse myelitis
> syndrome (right use of syndrome??) to point out that this is a grouping of
> illnesses that have different causations (sometimes unknown) but more or
> less the same effects.
>
> What do you think?
>
> Aurore