Re: GBS
From: R. Daniel Braun (rd.braun@gmail.com)
Fri Nov 30 18:26:39 2007
I didn't say that I didn't do the cultures, I said that there was little if
any scientific or logical basis to do it.
Dan
On Nov 30, 2007 12:43 PM, Andrew Folley <agfolley@hotmail.com> wrote:
> Brain damaged baby from GBS meningitis.......priceless. Pick a number
> between 1 and 10 and add
> six zeroes to it on your check to the family.
>
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> Date: Thu, 29 Nov 2007 19:42:57 -0600
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> From: rd.braun@gmail.com
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> To: ob-gyn-l@dns.obgyn.net
> Subject: Re: GBS
>
> I almost forgot, you have to double that figure because our screening and
> treatment only prevents 50% of those infections. That gets it up to $600,000
> to prevent one infection.
>
> Dan
>
> On Nov 28, 2007 8:31 PM, < DoctorJoe@aol.com> wrote:
>
> In a message dated 11/28/07 7:03:47 PM, rd.braun@gmail.com writes:
>
> let me see, Screen costs at least $50 and treatment at least $500.
> 2000 X's 50 = 100,000 and 400 X's 500 200,000. That means it costs
> somewhere around $300,000 to prevent 1 case of severe infection. That
> doesn't take in to account the complications of treating with Penicillin
> (allergic reactions, medication errors, etc.) or of those who improperly
> treat with Ampicillin (creating resistant strains of other organisms), etc.
>
> . jury in your case.
>
> Joe P.
>
> Chuck Norris puts GBS on his cornflakes in the morning -- AFTER he puts on
> the MRSA.
>
> --
> R. Daniel Braun, MD FACOG(L) CMT
> Professor Emeritus
> Dept. of Obstetrics and Gynecology
> Indiana U. School of Medicine
>
> R. Daniel Braun
>
> "Science without Religion is LAME; Religion without Science is
> BLIND"
> Einstein 1941
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R. Daniel Braun
"Science without Religion is LAME; Religion without Science is BLIND"
Einstein 1941
