To: President Donald Trump, The Florida State House, The Florida State Senate, Governor Ron DeSantis, The United States House of Representatives, and The United States Senate
Protect Lyme Doctors From Persecution
Lyme doctors are being persecuted for treating lyme disease for various reasons, while the CDC, diagnostic labs and treatment protocols are not accurate or established. Several states already have
patient or physician protection laws just for lyme disease. We need nation legistlation.
patient or physician protection laws just for lyme disease. We need nation legistlation.
Why is this important?
"Our lyme doctor in Destin is being forced to quit by the FL Board of Medicine. It's a state issue but similar situations have occurred in the north east, Virginia, Kansas, and North Carolina. We need a national law protecting lyme doctors"
Dr Lentz has assisted us part of the last 4 years with our son's devastating lyme disease. Because he treated two people with negative western blots, he has two weeks to either pay $20k and practice with probationary supervision OR give up his license. This is totally ludicrous.
1) The VA legislature and governor passed, Feb 2013, a law that all doctors must inform patients of inaccurate Western Blots and Elisa lab tests for lyme. They are not the first state to do so.
2) The CDC has stated for lyme disease to IGNORE testing and diagnose clinically. But because evidencuary medicine is so prevalent, physicians ignore the CDC instructions.
3) The CDC announced last week that over 300,000 were contracting lyme every year and their previous estimates were 10 times to low (30,000). What they didn't say was, they were too low basically because lab testing is so poor and should not be trusted.
Our son has consumed over $1,000,000 in health care in the last 4.5 years, with over $300,000 of that coming out of our pockets. Dr Lentz's portion has been very, very, little of that, and yet he has helped us tremendously. Please help him for the sake of all the other lyme patients in Florida and the US
Jimmy and Alice Branch
[email protected] (director of FL medical board)
Dr Lentz has assisted us part of the last 4 years with our son's devastating lyme disease. Because he treated two people with negative western blots, he has two weeks to either pay $20k and practice with probationary supervision OR give up his license. This is totally ludicrous.
1) The VA legislature and governor passed, Feb 2013, a law that all doctors must inform patients of inaccurate Western Blots and Elisa lab tests for lyme. They are not the first state to do so.
2) The CDC has stated for lyme disease to IGNORE testing and diagnose clinically. But because evidencuary medicine is so prevalent, physicians ignore the CDC instructions.
3) The CDC announced last week that over 300,000 were contracting lyme every year and their previous estimates were 10 times to low (30,000). What they didn't say was, they were too low basically because lab testing is so poor and should not be trusted.
Our son has consumed over $1,000,000 in health care in the last 4.5 years, with over $300,000 of that coming out of our pockets. Dr Lentz's portion has been very, very, little of that, and yet he has helped us tremendously. Please help him for the sake of all the other lyme patients in Florida and the US
Jimmy and Alice Branch
[email protected] (director of FL medical board)