David Volkman, Ph.D., M.D. , Emeritus Professor of Medicine and Pediatrics SUNY, Stony Brook, NY has written a letter to the new IDSA panelists debunking much of the old guidelines.
http://www.lymedisease.org/news/lymepolicywonk/82.html
from CALDA Lyme Policy Wonk blog:
There is a .pdf link to Volkman's entire letter, complete with references, at the bottom of the article.David Volkman, Emeritus Professor of Medicine and Pediatrics at SUNY, Stony Brook, and previously Senior Investigator with the National Institute of Allergies and Infectious Diseases, has submitted the attached letter to the IDSA pursuant to its document submission process. He has performed both clinical and bench research in Lyme disease since 1985. Given his impeccable credentials, outlined in the first paragraph of his letter, his submission should carry considerable weight with the panel. Among other things, he points to the suppression of research and stifling of the types of investigative inquiry necessary to begin to address pressing issues for Lyme patients—the need for better testing, the need to acknowledge persistence and start looking for treatment protocols that help patients get better, the need to keep surveillance definitions outside the arena of patient diagnosis, the need to acknowledge the usefulness of PCR testing, and the need to avoid prophylaxis regimens that may promote chronic Lyme. His letter smells a little bit like “courage” to me—a pretty rare commodity these days.
[edited for a typo, despite previewing first]