Lyme disease: Man spent £25,000 before getting diagnosis

[Arnie Pye]

Title : Lyme disease: Man spent £25,000 before getting diagnosis
Link : https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/uk-wales-60202952

There is a short video on the link above of the man talking about what happened to him.

A 36-year-old man spent £25,000 on tests and failed treatments before finally being diagnosed with Lyme disease.

Steven Williams, of Maesteg, Bridgend, was healthy and active when he was hit by extreme anxiety and left bed-ridden and shaking for 18 hours a day.

But despite seeking help from his GP and private healthcare, he struggled to get answers.

He said the battle to get a diagnosis for the disease, which can be very difficult to identify, had "totally devastated" his life.

 

[rvallee]

It sounds like a lot, until one compares the primary financial losses of remaining ill, which are easily 10x that much for most people. I wish I had only lost $25K.

The amount is emphasized to make it sound like a huge waste. As if losing 10-50x more by doing nothing is smarter. As long as medicine continues to evaluate cost with no regard for opportunity cost or externalities, it's mostly playing with fake numbers. This sum is a drop in the ocean compared to the multi-trillion-and-counting economic losses to the psychosomatic ideology.

Meanwhile a course of "high-intensity" CBT is far more expensive, since even by the most generous fraudulent interpretation, it takes 7 patients for 1 to benefit. Somehow even though it has the same outcome, and one can only ever achieve this same outcome, the smart one is dumb and vice versa. Truly the Upside down.