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<blockquote data-quote="Marguerite" data-source="post: 30150" data-attributes="member: 1991"><p>I refer back to what I said before - medication like this needs to be more strictly regulated, as do the doctors who prescribe it. Whether the parents administered the medications inappropriately or acted under medical advice needs to be investigated. But in my experience, medications which ARE tightly regulated make it clear that they are serious stuff, not to be played around with lightly. A GP might tell me to give my kids another paracetamol tablet for his fever, and I won't worry too much. But because I KNOW dex is highly regulated, if difficult child 3's specialist tells me to double his dose, I'll be more likely to question it. And the only way, under our system, that I CAN double his dose is to get another prescription filled, which would alert the pharmacist if the doctor's instructions are dangerous.</p><p></p><p>Dreamer, we are commenting on the picture as presented to us by the media. I agree that this could be a gross distortion, but the same applies to anything we comment on here. We should be cautious about reacting too emotionally on either side of the case simply because it COULD be a case of misrepresentation by the media, but as it is reported, there are a number of concerns, aside from whether the parents were culpable. Others had the opportunity to report concerns, but did not. In Australia, failure to report these concerns coupled with a death would lead to some severely rapped knuckles. We HAVE had some nasty cases in recent times where authorities mishandled the case and children have died. Were the parents culpable in those cases? To what degree? We just don't know, because what the media tells us is often very restricted.</p><p></p><p>All I CAN say about this case - there are a lot of questions to be answered, by a lot of people - the parents, the doctors, others who were in a position to act but who did nothing. Without those answers the truth is still uncertain. The load of guilt, wherever it lies, needs to be spread.</p><p></p><p>Marg</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Marguerite, post: 30150, member: 1991"] I refer back to what I said before - medication like this needs to be more strictly regulated, as do the doctors who prescribe it. Whether the parents administered the medications inappropriately or acted under medical advice needs to be investigated. But in my experience, medications which ARE tightly regulated make it clear that they are serious stuff, not to be played around with lightly. A GP might tell me to give my kids another paracetamol tablet for his fever, and I won't worry too much. But because I KNOW dex is highly regulated, if difficult child 3's specialist tells me to double his dose, I'll be more likely to question it. And the only way, under our system, that I CAN double his dose is to get another prescription filled, which would alert the pharmacist if the doctor's instructions are dangerous. Dreamer, we are commenting on the picture as presented to us by the media. I agree that this could be a gross distortion, but the same applies to anything we comment on here. We should be cautious about reacting too emotionally on either side of the case simply because it COULD be a case of misrepresentation by the media, but as it is reported, there are a number of concerns, aside from whether the parents were culpable. Others had the opportunity to report concerns, but did not. In Australia, failure to report these concerns coupled with a death would lead to some severely rapped knuckles. We HAVE had some nasty cases in recent times where authorities mishandled the case and children have died. Were the parents culpable in those cases? To what degree? We just don't know, because what the media tells us is often very restricted. All I CAN say about this case - there are a lot of questions to be answered, by a lot of people - the parents, the doctors, others who were in a position to act but who did nothing. Without those answers the truth is still uncertain. The load of guilt, wherever it lies, needs to be spread. Marg [/QUOTE]
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