Lullaby lulus

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> " WC Douglass " <realheath

 

> Lullaby lulus

> Tue, 20 Jul 2004 08:37:36 -0400

>

> Daily Dose

>

> Tuesday July 20, 2004

>

>

> Whatever happened to warm milk?

>

> Bet you didn't know this interesting factoid: There

> are NO DRUGS

> (prescription or over-the-counter) that are

> currently approved for

> the treatment of insomnia in children.

>

> This doesn't stop mainstream doctors from

> prescribing them for

> childhood sleep problems anyway, apparently. The

> results of a

> survey published in the journal Pediatrics revealed

> that more than

> 50 percent of all primary care pediatricians have

> written

> prescriptions for patent drugs for the treatment of

> sleeplessness in

> children — and more than 75 percent have recommended

> over-the-

> counter medicines for the same conditions!

>

> And I'll bet you didn't know this, either: As many

> as one in four

> children currently suffers from sleep problems.

>

> Doesn't this sound a bit high to you? I'll wager it

> wasn't anywhere

> near this high a ratio 30 years ago. Could it be

> because of all the

> energy-spiking sugar and carbs we cram

> into our kids — and all the time they spend in front

> of various

> screens instead of outside running, playing, burning

> fat, and getting

> tuckered enough to conk out at night? And

> let's not forget SUNLIGHT DEPRIVATION — probably the

> most

> important reason of all for childhood insomnia!

>

> My question is this: Why don't conventional doctors

> simply

> recommend some simple changes to these harmful

> dietary and

> lifestyle trends instead of writing those

> prescriptions or

> recommending Benadryl? I already know the answer:

> It's because

> they've been brainwashed by all the " educational "

> propaganda put

> forth by drug companies and their legislative

> lapdogs up on The

> Hill. They honestly believe that these kids are sick

> — but the truth

> is that they're just NOT TIRED.

>

> But I'm both sick AND tired of all of this kind of

> quackery. I'm

> going to drink myself a glass of warm milk and get

> some sleep.

> Maybe when I wake up I'll realize it was all just a

> bad dream.

>

>

> Shrinking American medicine

>

> The brain drain in American medicine is horrific. I

> first noticed it

> 20 years ago when I came up against the young

> doctors in HMOs

> in Atlanta. The patients who came to me from the HMO

> clinics

> would tell amazing stories of ignorance,

> incompetence, and large

> doses of impertinence.

>

> In the next 20 years this downward trend in American

> medicine

> will accelerate. Here's why:

>

> Dr. Mark Baldree of Phoenix, Arizona, was discussing

> career

> counseling with his daughter. She told him that her

> counselor had

> mentioned how competitive engineering and business

> schools are.

> " Well, what about medicine? " he asked.

>

> She replied: " None of the really smart or talented

> kids go into

> medicine any more. "

>

> That about sums it up, doesn't it?

>

>

> Glad I'm from a different era,

>

> William Campbell Douglass II, MD

>

>