This hour long drama on NBC in
it's 13th season. The show focuses on the happenings of
Chicago's County General Hospital's Emergency Room. The show
often focuses on important health and welfare topics and even lists
them on their website under outreach.
You can visit the show's
website at: http://www.nbc.com/ER/
We have written the following
email to the show to ask them to do a storyline about Lupus. We encourage all of you to write to them as well.
You can tell them your story, give them Lupus information and stats
and encourage them to cover this important topic.
Here is the show's contact
page:
http://www.nbc.com/Footer/Contact_Us/ and select ER from the
show menu.
Dear ER:
I am writing to you today
to ask you to do a storyline about a disease that is killing and disabling thousands of
Americans every year. Millions suffer from this disease, while the FDA
has not approved a new treatment in over 4 decades. That
disease is Lupus and it desperately needs the awareness your show can give!
Lupus affects an estimated 1.5
million Americans, 90% of them are women. Lupus also affects
African Americans 3 times more than Caucasians. For such a common
and potentially deadly disease it is
dreadfully under publicized, misunderstood and lets just be honest,
ignored. This disease is often disabling and almost always
life altering for not only the patient, but also for their families.
It has been over 40 years since the FDA has approved a new treatment for
Lupus. That is inexcusable when the current treatments can be
just as debilitating as the disease itself.
Almost everybody has heard of
Lupus and even knows somebody who has it, but if you asked them what
it was they would not know, or they would tell you something vague
or just plain false. There are a lot of misconceptions about
Lupus!
October is National Lupus
Awareness Month and is just one example of a great time to include a
story
about this disease. We hope you will consider
shedding some light on this disease and the effects it can have on
both the patient and their family! We will be asking our support network
of Lupus patients and their families to let you know how much this
story needs to be told as well. You can read my personal story
at:
http://cure4lupus.org/kendras_story.htm If you want to read more about Lupus
you can visit our website at http://Cure4Lupus.org, The Lupus Foundation of
America's website at Lupus.org or the Alliance for Lupus Research's
website at LupusResearch.org.
Kendra
Isola
Webmaster@Cure4Lupus.org
