(as mentioned en passant here, re other US-Medicos' attitudes), their seeming-incapability of listening with anything-like full attention: even to those clearly intelligent, even when they demonstrate that quality in the substance of their own 'logs' and detailed observations. Some are doing better now, of course; still ... plenty of the former. To my mind, long has been been demonstrated the arrogance and supercilious mien, via such weasel-words as, non-specific-vaginitis which translates to ~ "Gee we don't really 'know' what's causing this, but we can give you a Rx which works on similar 'diseases'". (Some decent minds also question the entire 'disease' hypothesis!)

(Worse -in spades- is the similar training of Vets, these shielded especially well via the lobbying-into-law of special exemptions, greatly limiting chances for any legal options.) Clearly in US For-profit medicine, the bizness implications set the standards/no surprise there, when it comes to 'monetating' any irreversible errors, of which there are many. Capitalism offers many peculiar conversion-factors: when it's your money or your life: when you need a court.

The experience of the person with Lyme symptoms?/'disease'?/"syndrome"==the dismissal-word oft employed: echoes the comments of Baker. She was fading-away before a lucky intro to an M.D. on E. Coast who finally treated her. Efficaciously, almost to normal health. It's far too late to contemplate the re-training of tens of thousands; maybe Next-gen? (Dunno if 'Lyme' can be a litmus for other problems; there are so many of those.)

Baker surely has the chops to ferret out working alternatives as R. did, and can afford that delving (R. had no such income, but had a good working mind.) 'Crap shoot' applies to so much in The Fatherland, even when it was less Secure from things that go boom in the night.