IN the last months of her life, baby Gloria Thomas suffered such terrible eczema her skin would weep and peel, sticking to her clothing when she was changed. Despite her bleeding, crying and malnutrition, her mother and homeopath father failed to get conventional medical help before she died a painful death, a Sydney jury has been told. Full article here Good grief, this poor little girl's parents were both highly educated people! Intelligence apparently is no guarantee against superstition and foolishness. Obviously confronted with a choice between their own child's health and the stark reality that homeopathy had failed (as it always does), they put their belief ahead of the welfare of the child. These people should be sent to jail. |
Monday, May 4, 2009
Homeopathy at work - baby dies
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If I was in this situation as a parent and a homeopath, I would not continue to administer something that was clearly not working in this case.
I would chose a different homeopath (it is indeed extremely difficult to prescribe for your friends and family without prejudice or impartiality) and if that didn't work I would try a different complementary approach or indeed a conventional medical approach.
I agree that the parents have been negligent.
Could the medical profession be deemed negligent if someone died whilst receiving conventional medicines that weren't working when alternatives hadn't been considered?
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Hi Alastair
Thanks for your comment. Obviously we are never going to agree on homeopathy, but I appreciate your common sense view that if it isn't working, for whatever reason, then do something else.
Medicine is always going to face situations where a person's illness is going to be untreatable. That's life in an imperfect world.
But my own view is that a substance diluted to tiny concentrations is never going to be effective beyond what you'd expect from a placebo, and should never be used to treat minors who cannot legally make their own health decisions.
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