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Letters1 November 1998Overdiagnosis of Lyme DiseaseClare L. Cherney, MDClare L. Cherney, MDHospital of St. Raphael; New Haven, CT 06511Search for more papers by this authorAuthor, Article, and Disclosure Informationhttps://doi.org/10.7326/0003-4819-129-9-199811010-00031 SectionsAboutFull TextPDF ToolsAdd to favoritesDownload CitationsTrack CitationsPermissions ShareFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditEmail TO THE EDITOR:After reading Reid and colleagues' report [1], I came away with a feeling of “Enough already!”The authors' stated objective was to identify the complications of patients who had been inappropriately diagnosed and treated for Lyme disease. Did any of the authors also evaluate patients in the Yale University Lyme Disease Clinic during the study? The stated objective would certainly affect the physicians' objectivity in evaluating patients' Lyme disease status.What data show that continued antibiotic therapy does not help with the fatigue-arthralgia-myalgia syndrome? In my review of the literature, the only prospective study evaluating patients with ...
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