So-Called "Lyme Disease" Victim's Lawsuit Against East Valley Clinic Moves Forward

Not a week goes by that we don't hear from someone around the nation about our story last year entitled "Lyme Aid," (here it is). 

Lyme disease is extremely rare in Arizona, according to the CDC and other sources

​The piece concerned an ailing young Gilbert woman whose parents spent thousands of dollars at an East Valley health clinic, where the practitioners claimed she was suffering from Lyme disease.

The co-owner of the Remnant Health Center, Dr. Dana Rosdahl (a family nurse practitioner and former ASU professor), put the young woman, Alyssa Goodale, on a variety of opiates and other drugs to treat myriad internal ills that Rosdahl apparently was convinced were caused by Lyme disease..

Named after the small Connecticut town where it first was identified, Lyme is an infectious illness often caused by the bite of a tiny deer tick that is not indigenous to Arizona. Source