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Are you referring to the doc who writes the LymeMD log?
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I am also looking for info on this doctor, the one who writes the blog, thanks!
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Hubby saw him briefly in 2011 (PCP would not continue to write scrips for IV meds and we lived too far from the doc for him to prescribe them so we had to move on to another doc). But his practice has changed greatly since hubby was a patient so I can't really give much info.
I do know a patient who's daughter has been in remission for a year now who saw the doc. The teenager had probably only been ill for less than a year I think and Dr J was her first and only LLMD.
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He is not an expert yet. He has only been treating lyme for about 5 years--since he got it--and that was as part of a regular medical practice.
In the first few years, I got many, many horrible patient reports about him and they were all asking for better doctors. Then, about 2 years ago, that basically stopped. He saw one lyme patient per day in the last few years. So few lyme patients keeps the doctor from learning much about the disease.
Then, in May 2013, he left his regular practice and became a full-time lyme doctor. So, he is brand new as a full-time lyme doctor.
He is bright, so he probably is OK for uncomplicated cases of lyme disease. It will be a few more years before he can handle complex cases, based on the learning curve of all of the other top lyme doctors. It generally takes about 10 years of treating this disease full-time or at least half-time to become a top lyme doc.
But, since there are top notch lyme doctors very near him, I don't know why anyone would want to go to him unless it is simply to see him while waiting for one of the local top notch lyme doctors.
He no longer takes insurance, and his rates are a little below what the top notch lyme doctors in the area charge.
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Who is considered top notch near him?
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