Kevin
| February 17, 2009
It's an age-old question that many parents still ask.
Pediatrician Perri Klass gives her take in a NY Times column. In general, you can't prevent every child who's shedding virus from going to school, as "that's everybody all winter long."
The only confirmed way to prevent the transmission of infection is hand-washing, a habit that should be regularly taught and enforced.
Dr. Klass' bottom ...
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Kevin
| February 16, 2009
That's a question this case in the UK is trying the answer.
As Dr. Crippen, the crusty blogger who notes the inanities of the UK medical system, notes, extra-martial affairs are commonplace.
But should a physician be censured, effectively ending his medical career, for having a dangerous liaison?
"If every man and women in Britain who had an extra-marital affair were to be prevented from working," writes ...
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