Harrison -
PCR for anything but gonorrhea and chlamydia is not in the scope of my practice at all... but i have to deal with the worst of any patient population.
i think that there are a lot of diseases that we don't understand well - but when the treatment is worse than the disease, i get mad.
example: long term IV antibiotics for chronic lyme. patient gets an invasive catheter, and get septic/blood clot/other issues from the line. no good proof that months of ceftriaxone does anything, but there are docs who will do it b/c they can bill for it.
that's what i'm talking about...
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