The Provincial Administrative Court in Warsaw, in a judgment dated October 23, 2024, fully supported the position of the Patient Ombudsman, confirming that laboratory testing of ticks does not comply with the requirements of current medical knowledge and cannot be considered diagnostic in the context of Lyme disease.
On October 23, 2024, the Provincial Administrative Court in Warsaw reviewed a complaint by a medical entity against a decision by the Patient Ombudsman, which found that offering laboratory testing of ticks violated patients' collective rights. In justifying its decision, the Ombudsman pointed out that testing ticks for the presence of pathogens of transmissible diseases, including Lyme disease, is not a diagnostic test, and the result of such a test...
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