Thread by @PutrinoLab

Really proud of my team for getting this out. It has been a heavy lift. When we opened the Cohen Center for Recovery from Complex Chronic Illness, we wanted to create a place that could provide the very best of care for people with #LongCOVID, #MECFS,
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chronic tick- and vector-borne illness and other infection associated chronic illnesses. We wanted to make sure that this could be done billing codes that are covered by insurance, and most importantly, we did *not* want to become a destination clinic - we wanted to create a
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model that could be followed by others to scale to thousands of potential clinics around the country and the world to help to manage the hundreds of millions of people who are living with IACI diagnoses. This manual, available free of charge to everyone, is a first step in
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pursuit of that goal. It is intended as the start of a larger conversation about clinics sharing wisdom and practices. It is a living document that we intend to continually update as new practices and new needs become available AND as we learn more ourselves. It is our hope
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that this work will encourage others with profound knowledge in this space to also freely share it with the community for the sake of hundreds of millions who are suffering with diagnoses that have been unjustly denied, shamefully misrepresented and terribly mismanaged. It is
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our biggest hope that release of this manual will start a movement: let’s share knowledge, practices, wins, losses and lived experience. Collectively we have the power to forge better care for people with IACIs 🙏🏻💪🏼

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