file.newsgroup.med.59045 Maven / Gradle / Ivy
From: [email protected] (Ralph Yozzo)
Subject: Re: How to Diagnose Lyme... really
In article <[email protected]> [email protected] (Gordon Banks) writes:
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>In article <[email protected]> [email protected] (Marc Gabriel) writes:
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>>Now, I'm not saying that culturing is the best way to diagnose; it's very
>>hard to culture Bb in most cases. The point is that Dr. N has developed a
>>"feel" for what is and what isn't LD. This comes from years of experience.
>>No serology can match that. Unfortunately, some would call Dr. N a "quack"
>>and accuse him of trying to make a quick buck.
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>Why do you think he would be called a quack? The quacks don't do cultures.
>They poo-poo doing more lab tests: "this is Lyme, believe me, I've
>seen it many times. The lab tests aren't accurate. We'll treat it
>now." Also, is Dr. N's practice almost exclusively devoted to treating
>Lyme patients? I don't know *any* orthopedic surgeons who fit this
>pattern. They are usually GPs.
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Are you arguing that the Lyme lab test is accurate?
The books that I've read say that in general the tests
have a 50-50 chance of being correct. (The tests
result in a large number of both false positives and
false negatives. I am in the latter case.)
We could get those same odds by "rolling the dice".
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Ralph Yozzo ([email protected])
From the beautiful and historic New York State Mid-Hudson Valley.