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CA quest
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Link to the July issue of American Family Physician BIG article on Lyme disease. Although the article is moderately better than those that were produced five years ago (we are making minute progress) it has a lot of the old guard steerian/Rahnian crap in it too. ie: two step testing...when using the ELISA as a screening test is pretty close to criminal. And the lengthy diatribe on how to assess probability is a laugh. etc etc aggghhh
http://www.aafp.org/afp/20050715/297.html

Quest

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lou
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More baloney. Get out the mustard.

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janet thomas
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Get out the manure cart, big load coming in.

The sad part is real people will not be diagnosed. And will become chronic.

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troutscout
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Greatcod
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Here are three MD's signing off on information that is dangerous to patients.
I assume they are well intentioned, decent people. But if these "contributors" can't get it right by researching the medical literature, what chance does any Primary
Care physician have? The point I am making is that information crucial to the proper
diagnosis and treatment of acute Lyme (no reference here to chronic) is scattered
all over Medical Journal World, and in defense of Non-LLMDs, they don't really have much of a chance of getting it right.
I am certain PC docs have no intention of harming people who present with Lyme, but they do.

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perplexed
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Articles such as this really makes me wonder what these ducks would do if they had Chronic Lyme? With all their quacking they do nothing more than sound like the Steere camp.

Two more weeks and off I go to a real LLMD in Missouri for the first time ever. I cannot wait.

Jean

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