"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
To Hell With Experience: Experience and evidence apparently aren't the same, especially when it comes to small pox vaccine and children:
Though doctors administered the vaccine successfully in children for two centuries before the disease was eradicated, a formal controlled clinical trial had not been performed even in the 1960s, a period within the era of evidenced-based medicine.
The vaccine was used to successfully eradicate the disease around the globe, but we need a clinical trial of its effectiveness? I guess the collective memory needs refreshing posted by Sydney on
9/26/2002 06:57:00 AM
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