Lyme disease, like any other medical condition, has a large subjective element and diagnosis is as much an art as a science.
Physicians have been cognisant of this paradox since the time of Hippocrates – indeed, the history of medicine can be seen as an effort to put diagnosis on a sounder scientific footing by eliciting the role that microbes, environmental pollutants, genes and psycho-social stressors play in disease. But as medicine has become more sophisticated and we have developed more sensitive tests and treatments, so more and more people have acquired diagnostic labels.
— Read on www.theguardian.com/books/2025/mar/09/the-age-of-diagnosis-by-suzanne-o-sullivan-review-lyme-disease-adhd-autism
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