{"id":71888,"date":"2025-10-13T14:08:10","date_gmt":"2025-10-13T14:08:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/71888\/"},"modified":"2025-10-13T14:08:10","modified_gmt":"2025-10-13T14:08:10","slug":"ai-said-i-had-lyme-disease-before-a-doctor-did-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/71888\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;AI said I had Lyme disease before a doctor did&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Some of Oliver&#8217;s frustrations are shared by tick-born disease specialists who say that standards within the NHS and private institutions aren&#8217;t good enough. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Georgia Tuckey who is a tick-born disease specialist and clinician in Worthing said: &#8220;We have a particular way of understanding symptom presentation&#8230;that&#8217;s what we&#8217;re looking for.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;And that isn&#8217;t looked for generally in the context of NHS investigations,&#8221; she said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">There are around 1,500 laboratory-confirmed cases of Lyme disease in England and Wales each year, although it is estimated that there are 3,000 to 4,000 patients treated by doctors without a confirmed diagnosis.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Mrs Tuckey believes by only using &#8216;laboratory-confirmed&#8217; data it &#8220;doesn&#8217;t support investing&#8221; in Lyme research or training because the actual number of cases &#8220;should be much higher&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The UKHSA said: &#8220;We know that there are many more cases diagnosed on clinical grounds that receive treatment without testing\u2026 <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Further work is being carried out by UKHSA to get recent, updated data to gain further understanding of the incidence of Lyme disease.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Some of Oliver&#8217;s frustrations are shared by tick-born disease specialists who say that standards within the NHS and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":71889,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[163,521,85,46],"class_list":["post-71888","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-healthcare","tag-health","tag-healthcare","tag-il","tag-israel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71888","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=71888"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71888\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/71889"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71888"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71888"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71888"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}