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Re: GBS--> ramblings From: art fougner, md (evsono@pipeline.com) Mon Apr 10 05:58:18 2006 Messages sorted by: [ date ][ thread ][ subject ][ author ] Next message: GA12L@aol.com: "Re: GBS--> ramblings" Previous message: Elrod, Darryl G MAJ 48 MDOS/SGOBO: "Re: GBS" In reply to: DoctorJoe@aol.com: "Re: GBS--> ramblings" Next in thread: Joe: "Re: GBS--> ramblings" All in all, just another brick in the wall ... Art At Sun, 9 Apr 2006, DoctorJoe@aol.com wrote: > >In a message dated 4/9/06 6:18:35 PM, splaz@cyllene.uwa.edu.au writes: > >> So what do you do with the 20% percent?? >> 20 % or 1 in 5 is still a large group of women. >> >> My local experience says that when there is universal screening - the >> alertness for GBS babies drops precipitously to the detriment of the >> baby. Because how the baby have GBS when the mother is "negative" or she >> is "positive" and already on iv antibiotics. >> >Hmmmm. So what you're asking makes for an observation: > >When a "protocol" or "pathway" is developed to make something idiot proof, >the idiots find a way to screw it up. > >An observation I've made before: The cookbook method of modern medicine was >developed to keep less-than-competent doctors (and others) from making glaring >mistakes. This looks on its face to be a good maneuver. However, this only >mediocritizes (or dumbs down, if you will) medical care, since the better >practitioners are often either lulled into a sense of complacency, or they are >threatened into following the protocol ONLY, because if they excel beyond it, for >the betterment of the patient, they're targetted by the mediocre masses out of >jealousy. > >The protocol is developed to be a "floor" and it ends up as a "ceiling." > >Joe P. -- art fougner, md Support Free Speech Buy Danish! Next message: GA12L@aol.com: "Re: GBS--> ramblings" Previous message: Elrod, Darryl G MAJ 48 MDOS/SGOBO: "Re: GBS" In reply to: DoctorJoe@aol.com: "Re: GBS--> ramblings" Next in thread: Joe: "Re: GBS--> ramblings"

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