Ticked Off

You took the antibiotics. Your numbers improved. Your doctor says you’re fine.

So why do you still feel like this?

Dr. Gordon Crozier was eight years old when a tick bit him in the woods of northern Minnesota. It took more than thirty years, and a medical degree of his own, before anyone could tell him what had happened. By then he had learned what every misdiagnosed patient learns: how to hear the pause before a doctor answers, and how to wonder whether the problem is really …