Iowa doctor agrees to stop treating disease others say doesn’t exist

[Omaha Steve]

http://www.omaha.com/article/20130705/NEWS/707059921/1707#iowa-doctor-agrees-to-stop-treating-disease-others-say-doesn-t-exist

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — An Iowa doctor has agreed to stop treating a version of Lyme disease that many physicians suspect doesn’t exist.

Dr. Jeffrey Piccirillo of Grinnell will also pay a $10,000 fine as part of a settlement with the Iowa Board of Medicine.

Piccirillo has gained attention for using powerful antibiotics to treat patients who believed they had “chronic Lyme disease.” Patients often attribute their aches and fatigue to the tick-borne bacterial infection, even though standard tests don’t detect it in their bodies.

The board said Piccirillo diagnosed and treated people for Lyme disease without proper evidence that they were infected, and used treatments not recognized by national authorities. He also was accused of engaged in an improper sexual relationship with a female patient.

[Recursion]

1. Weird. Why not just call it PTLDS, which sounds like the same thing?

I just read a cool story on this.

Now, if we can get the "Morgellen's disease" doctors to stop...

[longship]

3. Morgellens!! Love fake diseases.

But the Lurghi is apparently a big problem in the UK.

[Recursion]

4. Marthambles! It's all about marthambles...

[reflection]

5. The first thing I thought when I read this headline

was "Morgellons." Has that one run its course or is it still hanging tough in certain circles?

[Recursion]

6. Still running, sadly. Even Mayo has a page on it

Though that page says "the CDC thinks you're crazy"

[tularetom]

2. Who cares about that Lyme disease stuff?

I wanna hear more about the improper sexual relationship with a female patient.