About two years ago, we reported on the strange case of the physicians' teenaged son delivering a baby. At the time, we noted that he did so at the urging of his parents in a bid for the Guiness Book of World Records. The Guiness folks quite rightly saw this as "bad medicine."
And so what are we to make of this?
These children are being paid over $27 an hour to assess callers' risk of swine flu, determine if they qualify for treatment (i.e. medically diagnose), and then arrange for those who qualify to pick up their meds. Needless to say, this has met with some, um, resistance and concern by some adults:
"Liberal Democrat health spokesman Sandra Gidley called the news worrying.
'Expecting people with little or no experience to work on such a complex subject is irresponsible ... It's bad enough that people can answer three questions and bingo, you get Tamiflu. The danger is that the Government, far far from being prepared as it claimed, is actually rushing things through in a way that is bad for the public.'" [ed: emphasis added]
"(R)ushing things through in a way that is bad for the public."
Now, where have we heard that before?
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