The 'treatment' of fever is a very important issue.
Fever phobia is the cause of overdiagnosis, overprescribing and apart from causing physical harm also causing emotional harm. Doctors maintain fever phobia, and academics make it worse by doing illogical 'fever reducing' studies. Apart from human suffering it is the cause for financial strain on the health services.
I summarized all these issues in my rapid response in 2008 http://www.bmj.com/rapid-response/2011/11/02/interest-public
(BTW the first sentence of my RR ended up in Conflict of Interest)
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