[dumbneurologist]

The post I'm responding to is a stanford researcher who is posting about lyme disease. Is she a lyme sufferer? If she is she doesn't say so, and I'm not making any assumptions.

You are attacking me for saying "lyme people" even as you use "lyme patients" in the same sentence. There is no difference: both use lyme as an adjective to define a subpopulation using a completely innocuous starting population ("people" v "patients"). I'm just starting with a bigger group, because unaffected family, friends, etc can have these opinions too.

[vimy]

From the context it was clear you used it as a pejorative. The tone of your original post was: Lyme patients should stop whining, it's not that bad of a disease.

In reality, patients with Lyme have a worse quality of life than those with AIDS or cancer. It's that bad. And what you wrote tells me that you, as a doctor, don't seem to understand that.