Vijay Sikand

I take care of newborns to 90 and I say, stop at 90 because if you're 90, you don't need me.

And we fell in love with the place.

It was a small, charming town where you have a couple of very nice inns on Main Street.

And just, you know, it's a lovely spot right there on the Connecticut shoreline at the bottom of the Connecticut River.

Old Lyme is the place where I started my practice of medicine.

It's also the place where Lyme disease was first discovered in this country.

And it's consumed much of my life.

Very quickly in the mid-1980s, when the media reports started to come out, there was there's a

quite a lot of anxiety.

So I started to get phone calls in my office almost every day.

I almost spent an hour before going home at the end of the day returning phone calls from parents who asked me what to do about their kids' tick bites.

And so all of a sudden, we had a snowballing of interest, anxiety, stress, need for understanding, diagnosis, and treatment.

It was a lot of fun.

It was a lot of fun.

It was a lot of fun.

Tell me.

How often do you get to be a doctor and treat stuff that's not only –

seems this new, but to be right in the middle of it.

I mean, it's the kind of thing where if you made a phone call to a customer service agent and they asked you what your address was and you said Lyme, Connecticut, they said, oh, where the disease is, right?

So, you know, as a doctor, it was kind of neat to have something that you can uniquely diagnose and be positioned to diagnose it as well as to cure it.