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<blockquote data-quote="slsh" data-source="post: 30383" data-attributes="member: 8"><p>I think virtually all disciplines of medicine have the potential for abuse/misuse (think plastic surgery and Michael Jackson, or surgery/neurology and the "Ashley treatment"). It's been my experience that if you look around long enough, you can find a doctor who agrees with- you, or who you agree with (chicken or egg - I'm not sure). There are very few "right" answers medically speaking, in my humble opinion. One docs says this, another says that.... who is right? Who is responsible? Who is accountable? Where is the hard and fast line? I don't think it exists.</p><p></p><p>It boils down to personal opinion and experience. I agree with- LDM. Being at heart a very strongly antimedication/antiphysician kind of person, there is no doubt that life with- thank you (and Boo) has at least made me open to possibilities for bettering quality of life through medical treatment. thank you would not be as functional as he is today if it were not for the medications. Were there some idiot psychiatrists and really stupid medication choices made along the way? Absolutely - but that's just *my opinion*. </p><p></p><p>I think the recent story about the little girl highlights the need for a much better understanding of children and mental illness, better oversight by concerned professions who in my opinion are the ones who really dropped the ball here, as well as the need for what we've all been searching for - answers, respite, support, financing, research, etc. My gut impression is that the parents had their own issues, had more than 1 difficult child, and unfortunately took the easy way out by medicating their kids to the point of severe sedation. Let's face it - I would bet most of us who have had kids on multiple medication trials at one point or another were faced with- a sedated kid and most of us found it to be unacceptable. on the other hand... there are many a day when I think *I* would like to be sedated into oblivion and there's not a shred of doubt that I could find a doctor who would be willing to do it. Doesn't make it appropriate or acceptable or therapeutic, but it also doesn't make the doctor necessarily wrong either. I think it's all just one huge gray area where you have to weigh the wishes of the patient versus medical need versus appropriate/standardized care and then you have to bear in mind there really is no single acceptable standard of treatment for children with MI.</p><p></p><p>Or, as my much more succinct father in law always says.... "They don't call it *practicing* medicine for nothin'." :wink:</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="slsh, post: 30383, member: 8"] I think virtually all disciplines of medicine have the potential for abuse/misuse (think plastic surgery and Michael Jackson, or surgery/neurology and the "Ashley treatment"). It's been my experience that if you look around long enough, you can find a doctor who agrees with- you, or who you agree with (chicken or egg - I'm not sure). There are very few "right" answers medically speaking, in my humble opinion. One docs says this, another says that.... who is right? Who is responsible? Who is accountable? Where is the hard and fast line? I don't think it exists. It boils down to personal opinion and experience. I agree with- LDM. Being at heart a very strongly antimedication/antiphysician kind of person, there is no doubt that life with- thank you (and Boo) has at least made me open to possibilities for bettering quality of life through medical treatment. thank you would not be as functional as he is today if it were not for the medications. Were there some idiot psychiatrists and really stupid medication choices made along the way? Absolutely - but that's just *my opinion*. I think the recent story about the little girl highlights the need for a much better understanding of children and mental illness, better oversight by concerned professions who in my opinion are the ones who really dropped the ball here, as well as the need for what we've all been searching for - answers, respite, support, financing, research, etc. My gut impression is that the parents had their own issues, had more than 1 difficult child, and unfortunately took the easy way out by medicating their kids to the point of severe sedation. Let's face it - I would bet most of us who have had kids on multiple medication trials at one point or another were faced with- a sedated kid and most of us found it to be unacceptable. on the other hand... there are many a day when I think *I* would like to be sedated into oblivion and there's not a shred of doubt that I could find a doctor who would be willing to do it. Doesn't make it appropriate or acceptable or therapeutic, but it also doesn't make the doctor necessarily wrong either. I think it's all just one huge gray area where you have to weigh the wishes of the patient versus medical need versus appropriate/standardized care and then you have to bear in mind there really is no single acceptable standard of treatment for children with MI. Or, as my much more succinct father in law always says.... "They don't call it *practicing* medicine for nothin'." [img]:wink:[/img] [/QUOTE]
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