Re: Galesville Officer Battles Back From Lyme Disease: he suffered such delirium that he didn't know who he was.


Greatcod wrote:

How could this guy get diagnosed early using the IDSA guidelines?
Answer--he couldn't. All those whiney subjective symptoms don't mean
squat to the well trained IDSA physician.


The IDSA GUIDELINES are TREATMENT GUIDELINES.

NOT DIAGNOSTIC F--KING GUIDELINES. They do NOT change the CLINICAL
nature of the diagnosis.

The STUPID s--ts at the LDA can't R-E-A-D.

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