Some of the CD patients are reportedly better?

[thenmama]

Just saw this: some private youth league basketball games have been canceled b/c parents of kids from other teams wouldn't send their kids to NY to play. So the LeRoy School District made a statement assuring everyone there's nothing to worry about:

 

It states:

 

The NY Dept of Health has stated "repeatedly and unequivocally that the school is safe for students and visitors."

 

AND:

 

"There is absolutely no reason to keep students from attending events at the school. Several of the affected students are better and others are getting better."

 

AND:

 

"We credit the responsible journalists at WGRZ-TV, the Buffalo News, and other local outlets in the region with factual reporting in helping the community to better understand the topic."

 

article here

 

So several of the students who had CD are already better? Why haven't we heard this on the news? And why no word about the success of their treatments from the CD god and goddess at Dent? Surely successful treatment (using whatever methods a Neurologist might use to treat someone who has a psychological, stress-driven condition) would do a lot to confirm their dx, right? Plus Dr CD is a walking ego I can't imagine he would not mention that some of their patients symptoms have fully resolved along with his multiple mentions of the girls their care who are getting better...

 

And thanks to the "responsible" journalists for their "factual" reporting? I'll save the rant on that one b/c it's so obvious... but I do wonder if they'll retract that statement down the road when some students are confirmed to have something other than CD. Way I look at it there are two sets of treating physicians right now-- both fully credentialed-- and there are two diagnoses on the table, neither fully proven or disproven at this point. Factual ought to reflect that. Dent hasn't even seen all of the kids so how can their dx be responsibly reported as valid for every kid?

[tpotter]

Just saw this: some private youth league basketball games have been canceled b/c parents of kids from other teams wouldn't send their kids to NY to play. So the LeRoy School District made a statement assuring everyone there's nothing to worry about:

 

It states:

 

The NY Dept of Health has stated "repeatedly and unequivocally that the school is safe for students and visitors."

 

AND:

 

"There is absolutely no reason to keep students from attending events at the school. Several of the affected students are better and others are getting better."

 

AND:

 

"We credit the responsible journalists at WGRZ-TV, the Buffalo News, and other local outlets in the region with factual reporting in helping the community to better understand the topic."

 

article here

 

So several of the students who had CD are already better? Why haven't we heard this on the news? And why no word about the success of their treatments from the CD god and goddess at Dent? Surely successful treatment (using whatever methods a Neurologist might use to treat someone who has a psychological, stress-driven condition) would do a lot to confirm their dx, right? Plus Dr CD is a walking ego I can't imagine he would not mention that some of their patients symptoms have fully resolved along with his multiple mentions of the girls their care who are getting better...

 

And thanks to the "responsible" journalists for their "factual" reporting? I'll save the rant on that one b/c it's so obvious... but I do wonder if they'll retract that statement down the road when some students are confirmed to have something other than CD. Way I look at it there are two sets of treating physicians right now-- both fully credentialed-- and there are two diagnoses on the table, neither fully proven or disproven at this point. Factual ought to reflect that. Dent hasn't even seen all of the kids so how can their dx be responsibly reported as valid for every kid?

 

 

But, didn't you know that the contingency for that has already been set by DENT docs and Dr. Marc Schwartz from Fox? They've already said that the students that Dr. T. found who had strep and/or mycoP, and who he is treating for them, may get better, but it's only a "placebo effect" (incredibly now how evidence based treatment is placebo, but opinion based on non-evidence based is accurate?)