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Have anyone treated with or a friend or colleague treated with a Cambridge, Ma doc associated with the Cambridge health Alliance and Asst Prof at Harvard Med School
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- Even if he's not a LLMD, it may be best not to post any doctor's name. You could just say an ID doctor at clinic in Cambridge who is also a professor at Harvard, etc.
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First, ask at YOUR local, regional and state Lyme Support Groups - and the same for the location of the doctor. Make contact with all levels.
I searched his name and see that he is an internal medicine and an infectious disease doctor.
Typically, such ID (infectious disease) doctors are affiliated with the IDSA and are not at all well educated about lyme. In order to undertand that comment, see detail below.
Still, I always hate to say "always" or "every ID doctor" - but it is about 99% of the time that an ID doctor will be totally dismissive.
This is much more likely at ANY university medical center, or if they teach at one (even if in private practice, too). They are nearly always in the dark about lyme and often cause great harm to those with lyme.
Much may depend on when you may have contracted lyme, too.
Is this a brand new case? Still, many patients have had terrible results trying to find any ID doctor who is well enough educated, courageous enough to step out of the IDSA guidelines for adequate treatment. -
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WHY you need an ILADS "educated" or "minded" Lyme Literate doctor (whether MD or ND, or both) - starting with assessment / evaluation. -
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- I'm assuming you live in New York? Or is it the Boston area?
For the doctor in question, contact the Boston area lyme support groups (do a web search beyond this)
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I tried to edit, but the system wouldn't allow me. While I have been signed on since Jan 2012, this was my 1st posted question. I do not have LD, am not in Mass, but was asking for another reason . . . and it's not that I was checking for a friend either. I've seen your name numerous times in the 1.5 years I've checked for various reason. I am familiar, all too familiar with the IDSA guidelines and the authors, the actions against LLMD, the lawsuites and also familiar with ILADS and those LLMD that treat in my area.
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I understand now how to edit . . . edited the post. Thanks for your assistance, was a little nervous in posting for the 1st time. In NY. Obviously from my Lymenet.org name I have a friend that has CLD and why I've become very familiar with the "rules and regs", symptoms, what a person with CLD has to go through, etc. Although I don't have LD, my doc is a LLMD.
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