"Apparently, the medical board has fined Dr. Lentz (a Lyme specialist in the Destin, Florida area) $20,000 and is requiring costly supervision, solely because he treated outside of the CDC's restrictive guidelines. As a result, Dr. Lentz may be forced to close his practice, including his free clinic that served to poor."
"Even if you do not have Lyme Disease and Dr. Lentz is not your doctor, this ruling will have a chilling effect on doctor's willingness to treat Lyme Disease patients outside of government imposed guidelines."
There is a petition for Dr. Lentz that can be found here:
"Even if you do not have Lyme Disease and Dr. Lentz is not your doctor, this ruling will have a chilling effect on doctor's willingness to treat Lyme Disease patients outside of government imposed guidelines."
There is a petition for Dr. Lentz that can be found here:
http://petitions.moveon.org/
"Through our journey, we have learned that all aspects of Lyme Disease are controversial. There is a tremendous divide as to the appropriate standard of care. According to the CDC and IDSA, Lyme Disease is hard to catch and easy to treat with 30 days or less of antibiotics (even if the infection has become disseminated and/or there are co-infections). ILADS trained doctors, known as Lyme Literate Medical Doctors (LLMDs) recognize that the current tests for Lyme are fallible, and believe that persistent symptoms after initial treatment reflect on-going infection, therefore gauging the duration of treatment by the patient's individual clinical response."
"The central difficulties in the diagnosis and treatment of Lyme Disease stem from the lack of sufficiently sensitive and reliable biological markers of the disease. Without something as basic as markers for disease status, it is difficult to determine who has the disease, the effectiveness of a course of treatment, and the end point of treatment. Doctors should be permitted to treat based upon clinical presentation, not restrictive government guidelines."
"Through our journey, we have learned that all aspects of Lyme Disease are controversial. There is a tremendous divide as to the appropriate standard of care. According to the CDC and IDSA, Lyme Disease is hard to catch and easy to treat with 30 days or less of antibiotics (even if the infection has become disseminated and/or there are co-infections). ILADS trained doctors, known as Lyme Literate Medical Doctors (LLMDs) recognize that the current tests for Lyme are fallible, and believe that persistent symptoms after initial treatment reflect on-going infection, therefore gauging the duration of treatment by the patient's individual clinical response."
"The central difficulties in the diagnosis and treatment of Lyme Disease stem from the lack of sufficiently sensitive and reliable biological markers of the disease. Without something as basic as markers for disease status, it is difficult to determine who has the disease, the effectiveness of a course of treatment, and the end point of treatment. Doctors should be permitted to treat based upon clinical presentation, not restrictive government guidelines."
