In the United States, the land of supposed freedom of choice, many Lyme patients spend more time researching their car mechanics than their doctors. Sometimes it’s out of their hands. In many cases their insurance companies dictate which doctors are covered, and patients are punished with “out of network” fees if they visit a doctor outside their prescribed insurance roster.
Even within this network, things can get dicey. In my situation I lived in New England, the well-known “high-risk” area of Lyme disease, when I began consulting my doctors on a set of mysterious symptoms that would ultimately be diagnosed as chronic Lyme after two years of intensive testing.