"When many cures are offered for a disease, it means the disease is not curable" -Anton Chekhov
''Once you tell people there's a cure for something, the more likely they are to pressure doctors to prescribe it.'' -Robert Ehrlich, drug advertising executive.
"Opinions are like sphincters, everyone has one." - Chris Rangel
The Flu Shot Bandwagon: An article from the New York Time's suggests that doctors are to blame for low influenza immunization rates:
"If an equally safe and effective vaccine to prevent H.I.V. infection were available next month," Dr. Poland asked, "would it take decades to offer it to 60 percent of the at-risk population?"
The problem is that for the last two years the influenza vaccine, though safe and effective, wasn't available. It remains to be seen if it will be available this year in the numbers needed, although they’re claiming it will be. posted by Sydney on
8/27/2002 07:03:00 AM
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