RAXLEN

Disciplinary Actions against Bernard Raxlen, M.D.

Bernard Raxlen, M.D., a psychiatrist who markets himself as a specialist in treating Lyme disease now practices in New York City. Raxlen is part of a small network of doctors who—contrary to prevailing medical beliefs—assert that Lyme disease often become chronic and should be treated with long-term antibiotic therapy. His New York clinic Web site states that (a) “over 90% of his practice is now devoted entirely to Chronic Lyme Disease (CLD) and co-infections,” (b) he has treated over 3,500 cases of tick-borne disease, and (c) he is “one of the few family psychiatrist in the tri-state area to initiate a total comprehensive treatment program.” He has been disciplined six times: In 1999, when Raxlen practiced in Connecticut, he was charged with (a) refusing to …