Ross Douthat
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first heard Mar 2022
last heard Mar 2022
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You get to help people who are incredibly bad shape get better, which is obviously a nice thing.
And there is an element of the experimental that
I would think would be quite interesting.
It was interesting to me to experiment on myself.
So I think it would be more interesting to do it if you didn't have to, you know, if you weren't the one suffering yourself.
So I feel like if I were running a medical school, I would say, I'm gonna set up a special program to train people who will be long-term chronic illness doctors.
If I were a donor to a medical school, that might be what I would endow.
I think the simplest thing would be to say that we should normalize something that's in between the extremity of IV antibiotics, the five antibiotic cocktail and so on, and the four weeks of doxy cycling and we're done.
There are a number of people who get a chronic form of Lyme disease who are not as sick as I was and who need an extra six weeks of doxycycline and then they're better.
I've met and talked to a lot of people for whom the experience was like that, where once they went just a little bit beyond the official protocols, they started to improve.
So I think there's room for the kind of doctors who would be naturally skeptical.
critical of the more extreme things that I did to become one standard deviation more flexible in the treatments that they try.
And I think you would still be having patients who felt abandoned by that, who would end up where I ended up, but you'd also have a group of patients who would be helped and who also wouldn't get worse.
The key problem with chronic Lyme is that if you miss the diagnosis, ticks are tiny.
They're really tiny.
You can get bitten by a tick and really not know it for a long period of time.
And people do get worse.
They degenerate, they deteriorate.
I've been lucky there are people who have neurological damage that does not repair itself easily.
And so if you catch even some percentage of those people before they deteriorate, just by giving them an extra month of treatment at the start, I think you could do a lot of good just there.
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