NHS could save billions replacing paper with really expensive machines....

[vetran]

He was a fruit bat who bribed children to give blood samples at a birthday party and made up claims against a drug that was and has been proven to be safe based on his research done on 12 patients.

I still cannot believe that people are still arguing that MMR is not safe.

what proven safe after being tested on 12 patients? seriously though there are side effects to every drug we need to know that and assume the worst then prove otherwise. Medically AIUI there is little advantage to the combined jab, its just convenience and risk of misuse.


It was a cost saving exercise, they blackened his name instantly, they pulled the choice of single vaccines etc. It smelt dreadfully.

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I can't believe that people believed X-Rays were safe for so long, now nobody takes X-Ray's. When I was a kid I got one every time I went to the dentist or hospital. Of course evidence gathered over a mere hundred years suggests X-Ray's are a bit dodgy when mis-used. The experts in the medical profession have only just restricted it?

http://www.liv.ac.uk/media/livacuk/r...ray_Safety.pdf

Just how safe are X-rays at the dentist? | Mail Online

If you ask a dentist if its necessary to have an x-ray, he/she will always say YES!! and will also say "the quantity of radiation used if very small and is harmless" - yes, I have had this said to me more than once. If you try to argue they dont like it and become like doctors who are questioned about the efficacy of any medicine. Neither like to have their opinions questioned.

Seems Dentists are just as arrogant.

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These guys probably did their research at the local McDonalds

Half of drugs prescribed in France useless or dangerous, say two specialists | World news | The Guardian

again & again stories like these surface across the world and it seems that the medical profession is less than organised. And of course

Foreign doctors who lack words for compassion | Mail Online

so that suggests the all knowing medical professionals are not exactly in touch with patients needs.

[minestrone]

He said it was unsafe after a trial of 12 patients.

[vetran]

He said it was unsafe after a trial of 12 patients.

I read it correctly was just trying to inject some humour. He may have been a fruit bat but he was a highly qualified & respected fruit bat when he said it.

my other points?

[formant]

It is cretins like yourself that have seen measles cases spike in the last few years.

As it stands, I happen to be a big fan of vaccinations. You seem to be confusing valid circumstantial scepticism with questioning decades of sound research and development. I don't even do much of the latter in my own specialism, let alone someone else's.

[minestrone]

As it stands, I happen to be a big fan of vaccinations.

Good for you.

I'm sorry I cannot give you a prescription pad though, if it were up to me you would be first in line for it.

I would honestly forget you have not got to the top level of your school, gone through 5 years of medical school, 100 hour weeks on wards, nor the trainee role, RGCP validation or revalidation.

You are the expert here, not me.

[formant]

Good for you.

I'm sorry I cannot give you a prescription pad though, if it were up to me you would be first in line for it.

I would honestly forget you have not got to the top level of your school, gone through 5 years of medical school, 100 hour weeks on wards, nor the trainee role, RGCP validation or revalidation.

You are the expert here, not me.

You sound like you really wanted to make it into medicine but didn't and since put the profession on a pedestal.

I've gotten to the top level of my class, had no interest in medicine, went through more degrees and more years of education than your average GP to specialise in something else, and yet somehow I don't get my panties tied in a knot when some layperson second guesses my work. Nah, I consider the their input, see what I can do, and if not explain elaborately why what they think works doesn't.

You also seem to assume that completing the mandatory training for your profession guarantees that you'll be a flawless practitioner.

So, do you actually hold the view that all anecdotal as well as proven stories of medical malpractice or negligence out there must by default be made up?

[mudskipper]

You sound like you really wanted to make it into medicine but didn't and since put the profession on a pedestal.

His missus is a GP. It's quite sweet really.

[formant]

His missus is a GP. It's quite sweet really.

That explains a lot.