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Implement Recommendations Outlined in Schmidt Report 2010
Published by Sheri Mahood on Sep 22, 2011
Closed on Nov 05, 2011
Closed on Nov 05, 2011
1198 Signatures 
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Target: BC Minister of Health
Region: Canada
Result:
This petition has been closed.
Background (Preamble):
Dr. Brian Schmidt's report, among other things, urges the BC Government to:
- Develop accurate Lyme disease testing;
- Educate BC physicians to clinically diagnose Lyme disease;
- Provide long term antibiotics for Chronic Lyme disease;
- Provide physicians the freedom to treat Lyme patients on an individual basis without having to follow the Infectious Disease Society of America's restrictive 2-4 week course of antibiotics.
- Develop accurate Lyme disease testing;
- Educate BC physicians to clinically diagnose Lyme disease;
- Provide long term antibiotics for Chronic Lyme disease;
- Provide physicians the freedom to treat Lyme patients on an individual basis without having to follow the Infectious Disease Society of America's restrictive 2-4 week course of antibiotics.
Petition:
We the undersigned urge the Government of BC to implement the recommendations outlined in the Provincial Health Services Authority' report: Chronic Lyme Disease in British Columbia: A Review of Strategic and Policy Issues, written by Brian T. Schmidt (2010).
http://www.canlyme.com/Schmidt_2011.pdf
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http://www.canlyme.com/Schmidt_2011.pdf
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The Implement Recommendations Outlined in Schmidt Report 2010 petition to BC Minister of Health was written by Sheri Mahood and is in the category Health at GoPetition. Contact author here.
