
The mother is appalled. Her grown daughter almost 15 years of measles, and it does not go well at all. In the eyes of the mother, we see almost to remake the movie. Pediatrician. Magazines. Friends. Conflicting advice. Her child. Hesitation. Fears. Decision always rejected: later we will see clearer, it will be bigger ...
The reality is sometimes very difficult.
And not only that which touches us precisely at a time. Like that he must now explain to this girl and her mother. With its nuances, its uncertainties, the probabilistic side, certainly, but also his tenacious side. But I thought ... and then not. The reality principle, it is sometimes said. In medicine, there is much face. Elsewhere? Sometimes. Not everywhere. Not always.
And we sometimes have the impression that it is difficult as such, this side ... real, right? This core remains, despite all the genius of opinions and interpretations that we humans put on it. It was very strange that the coup to compare the British news and events in Switzerland some time ago. For England, it publishes in-depth analysis of the history of Wakefield. The very one who had opened the question of a link between the vaccine against measles and autism, and thus launched the discussion with the patient while ago was a victim. A question not absurd at the base, but known for a long time now that the answer is not . No link between vaccination and autism. And latest news is edifying: the BMJ decrypts these times, chapter after chapter, the story of a conflict of interests and mismanaged solid .
Clearly, the Wakefield study was fraudulent, and it was paid by a group who would have liked - already - found literally at any cost grounds to question the vaccine against measles. These revelations have even convinced some traditional opponents of vaccination. But for many, it will be far Wakefield enough that arises as a victim for him to win the credit without having to respond to criticism. In a story like that, whether the risk is real is clearly not enough.
So, I hope you will forgive me if I started smiling at our new to us, in Switzerland. Because that's about the same time that it was decided that some alternative therapies would again supported by the basic insurance . You could of course see another example of our denial. It seems we have finally damn mind not having to check if a treatment works really .
But it is also the first victory by a lobby. And users of alternative medicine, those in question here are after all not everyone . Mostly rather young, fairly well educated (for those referred to here), so (we're in Switzerland) mostly not among the poorest . At a time when planes are the angles of the health care costs (coverage of alternative medicine, it would pay a certain number of glasses) so it is not really surprising that they be equivalent a very nice gift.
In medicine, I tell you, the reality principle is one often faced ...
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