Thank you.
I previously mentioned my constituent Janet Mitchell, who refused to believe her doctor that she didn't have Lyme disease. But she's a critical person. She's a former councillor. She's well read. She's intelligent. She has resolve.
I guess there is a phenomenon happening that I would call “empowered” patients—patients who challenge their doctors. Most people are afraid to challenge their doctors. On the one hand, we have doctors who are waiting for guidelines and are throwing away ticks that may hold a deadly poisonous bacteria and not understanding, and then we have patients who go on the Internet and diagnose themselves and pursue treatments on their own.
I do want to get on the record that the test I mentioned, the Western blot test, is only provided in southern Ontario, to my knowledge, by a company called IGeneX, out of California. It's available through some naturopathic offices. I want to get that on the record for anybody who is reading the transcript of this hearing.
Thank you.
Dr. Lunney.