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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Alexander Butler

Private clinics ‘cash in’ by wrongly diagnosing disease Justin Bieber and Bella Hadid suffer from

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Private clinics are “taking advantage” of vulnerable patients in Britain by misdiagnosing them with Lyme disease so they can prescribe “profitable” courses of treatment, an expert has warned.

Dr Matthew Dryden, an NHS consultant microbiologist, said private clinics send tests to overseas laboratories which often “provide the result they want, a positive result for Lyme”.

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