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AM 640 radio, Toronto: Is Canada doing enough to fight Lyme Disease?

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April 15th, 2014

Last week radio host John Oakley had a physician on who dismissed Lyme Disease as being a big deal, and that US labs that are diagnosing Canadians with Lyme simply for profit.

For a physician to make such a statement without evidence gives some insight into how baseless rumour and inuendo seems to okay in the Canadian health care system, after all, this doctor was only giving out information that could affect someones quality of life, or even death.

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