tina.r
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I have very mixed feeling about this. To prescribe long term antibiotics without seeing the patient might be to go to far and I do not know all the details. Personally I would really like to have the option to have a LLMD that without seeing me could work together as a consulting doctor with my family doctor. I have not been able to find one yet, everyone is just so careful because of law suits and fear of loosing their licenses. Also, if my kids caught Lyme again I would like to have the option for my Pediatrician to work together with a LLMD without seeing my kids. I live in a region where it is hard to find a LLMD and I can not afford to travel too far to see one or use one that does not take my insurance. Both my Family doctor and Pediatrician are excellent doctors that I have great trust in and they are very honest with letting me know that they do not feel that they know enough about Lyme to be able to treat it successfully. I have manage so far with just asking hypothetical questions over the phone to a LLMD that has been very generous with his time over the phone. It makes me so sad to learn the hard way about health care, insurances and law suits related to medicine in this country. I come from a place where health care is socialized and law suits are almost unheard about. It is not a perfect system but right now I would really prefer to be there instead. Antibiotics is for me very overused in so many different ways and I think we all need to be smarter about it. It is a great drug when we really need it and we all see the evidence what overuse can cause. My latest struggle has been to find a safe disposal of old leftover antibiotics and everyone tells me to flush it down the toilet! That is even the advise the local EPA has given me even if they agree with the environmental effects it has. (Sorry I am side tracking now, I am just so upset about this, right now we are struggling in my community with so many cases of multi resistant staff infections). |
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