title: Bitten: A Patient With Tickborne Disease Struggles To Find The Right Provider.
authors.affiliation: Mairead Eastin Moloney (m.moloney@uky.edu) is an assistant professor of sociology at the University of Kentucky, in Lexington. The names of the physicians mentioned in this article were withheld to protect their privacy. The author thanks Thomas R. "Bob" Konrad, Virginia Aldige, Maxine Atkinson, Jennifer Gierisch, and Virginia Wang for their guidance and comments. Additionally, the author thanks Carolyn Cooper, Alexander Finch, Carol Henderson, Kristen Rademacher, Margaret Salinger, and Susie Wilde for their insightful comments on several drafts, and the editors and anonymous reviewers of Health Affairs for their incredibly thoughtful feedback. None of this would have been possible without the support of Kevin Eastin.
authors.forename: Mairead Eastin
authors.initials: ME
authors.lastname: Moloney
mesh_terms: D057210:Delayed Diagnosis; D006282:Health Personnel; D006801:Humans; D008193:Lyme Disease / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000628:therapy*; D033262:Narration; D009657:North Carolina; D010817:Physician-Patient Relations; D011320:Primary Health Care / Q000639:trends; D018570:Risk Assessment
keywords: Consumer Issues; Organization and Delivery of Care; Personal Experience (-Narrative Matters-); Physicians; Quality Of Care