re how to diagnose lyme really in article pitt uucp geb cs pitt edu gordon banks writes in article apr ns cc lehigh edu mcg ns cc lehigh edu marc gabriel writes 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 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 are you arguing that the lyme lab test is accurate the books that i ve read say that in general the tests have a 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 ralph yozzo yozzo watson ibm com from the beautiful and historic new york state mid hudson valley
