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TY for sharing this is more great news besides the Lyme info being put on Time Square giant video screen for 3 mo. Both started today Posts: 905 | From Santa Cruz,Calif | Registered: Aug 2005
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fflutterby
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I am telling you ! The time is now ! Praise God !!
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I wish I saw Watson!
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Tricky Tickey
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I'm so glad to know that we are finally being seen and heard. Guys, somebody is listening!! Plus, we have the huge awareness ad in Times Square for 3 months!!!!
-------------------- Early Disseminated LD- 2010. Currently doing acupuncture and yoga. Negative Igenex (IND & Pos Bands) ISSUES AFTER: Tendonitis, letter reversal, Low immune system. PREVENTION:SaltC,Iodine,Humaworm, Chiropractic. Posts: 1013 | From In a van down by the river. | Registered: Jun 2010
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Keebler
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- But what if WATSON actually has the IDSA criteria programmed into it? That could be even worse if doctors who have WATSON are forced to abide by its "ruling."
Those with a rash might be the clear winners (as the sequence in the commercial shows a rash as one of the diagnostic characteristics) but those without a rash could be bounced out.
I would hope ILADS will have some say in the programming of WATSON. Without them, it could be a death sentence in slow motion to those with lyme who don't present exactly the way IDSA dictates.
I'm very cautious in interpreting this commercial as a voice for lyme. This ad can be very deceptive and give a false sense of security to patients without very recent bites & rashes whose doctors use WATSON for lyme diagnosis.
Now, if ILADS comes out and says they're part of the programming, THEN I'll jump for joy. -
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true. but anytime you put the term lyme out there it has to be a plus. Eventually Lyme/Chronic Lyme will reach action bias if the word gets put out there enough in any form. it has to!
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Keebler
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- Agreed, it's validating - and potentially life-saving - to have the public first even just SEE "lyme" as a possibility in diagnosis.
It's just the programmers and users of concern.
I'll bet in Oregon, the medical board will dictate the disabling of "lyme" as even being a valid option for WATSON. I'd bet a twenty that they'd try! -
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