Actually, it came from MY vet, who is an AU grad (naturally) and a good client/friend. The background is that I got a tick bitten about a month ago, from a deer tick. I was actually sitting, in shorts, on a deer trail on our property, working on my tractor. When I discovered the little SOB, he was about twice the head of a pinhead. When I tried to get it out, it burst, blood flying everywhere. (They're about the size of the POINT of a pin when juvenile. I put antibiotic on it and forgot about it. I've had many tick bites. After a couple of days, I looked down and there was the bull's eye, which had spread out to about 3" in diameter. I actually went to the nearest urgent care, where the doc looked at it and just said "Yep, you got it," and placed me on antibiotics. In the meantime, I placed a pic on FB. Despite that, the husband of my vet posted back that the head of the Veterinary Dept at Auburn had declared there was no Lyme in Alabama (despite many studies to the contrary). It happened that I had an annual OV with my rheumatologist about a week later and told him that. He just leaned back and laughed, something he doesn't do easily. He said that he saw about 3-5 cases of Lyme's arthritis a year, typical for the others here. Only about 10% of Lyme sufferers go on to develop arthritis (and it's bad when it hits). He said there are about ten of them, so he said multiply by ten, twice. That means 300-500 per year in this area alone - and that's before you even start looking at missed dxes. I called it out as irresponsible on the part of Auburn, and I meant it. Although she and I have discussed other matter, we haven't talked about this, but we shall...