I wonder if anyone knows what treatment guidelines are employed in other countries, esp countries with nationalized healthcare systems?
In fighting the IDSA guidelines I have been asked this many times by journalists, lyme illiterate medical professionals and non-lyme activists.
I don't know the answer. It seems a potentially important and relevant question.
How do they treat lyme patients in Germany, France, England, Ireland, Canada or anywhere else for that matter? What are the standard guidelines used by those medical systems???
Anyone know? Anyone able to point me to the answer?
Pomegranite
Posted by sometimesdilly (Member # 9982) on :
here's a link to a European lyme advocacy group you can check to find some info:
dilly (ps- have you contacted the relevant Maryland Senate legislators who are considering spreading the IDSA guidelines throughout Maryland? See Tincup's posts! Monday is the last day to make a difference on this.)
Posted by minoucat (Member # 5175) on :
Lymenet serves well as a forum and as a jumping off point to other info. I don't see the point in trying to replicate other, successful, LD information sites that have their own specialty. It would be enough to have clear links to those sites from Lymenet.
Posted by david1097 (Member # 3662) on :
Canada for one.
That is the country that commissioned 2 studies on the most cost effective way to treat lyme..... The conclusion of the TWO Canadian studies was not to even test for it.
Posted by sienna (Member # 10980) on :