Combatting Lyme disease myths and the “chronic Lyme industry”

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Publication type: 
Journal Article
Publication date: 
2019-09
Journal/Series title: 
Canadian Medical Association Journal
Volume: 
191
Issue: 
40
Abstract: 

Medical organizations are developing tools to help Canadian doctors talk to patients about Lyme disease at a time when many frontline physicians report feeling ill-prepared to counter misinformation about the condition and pressured to send patients for Lyme testing and prescribe antibiotics when they aren’t warranted.