Coats Tim - Professor of Emergency Medicine wrote:
> At a recent national meeting there seemed to be a lot of anecdotes
> about severe bacterial sepsis in young people being misdiagnosed as
> flu, with subsequent poor outcomes due to delayed management. Maybe
> this is inevitable given the hype around flu, but i think that there
> is an important cautionalry tale here for all involved in the
> assessment of these patients.
> Tim.
Following all this with interest. Wouldn't it be a great thing to study
- how many folks who don't have flu are harmed by the public
health/govt/medical advice about flu.......and to compare that with
mortality/morbidity of the flu itself.
........it might turn out that we should all just keep quiet about flu!
Cheers all
Jel
(from a not quite flu free little town in BC)
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