http://greengabbro.net/2006/05/17/miss-manners-vs-the-cdc/ rock out to the apparatus Thu, 20 Nov 2008 10:07:43 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.3 http://greengabbro.net/2006/05/17/miss-manners-vs-the-cdc/#comment-57 Lab Lemming Sun, 21 May 2006 07:44:52 +0000 http://greengabbro.net/2006/05/17/miss-manners-vs-the-cdc/#comment-57 You must remember that in California, students are not individual people capable of making their own health decisions. Rather, they are the summation of their risk factors, a malpractice-suit-waiting-to-happen that threatens the foundation of the health services budget. Even if you were a 90 year-old hysterectomized nun living in isolation, it wouldn't cost them anything to recommend folic acid. But if they didn't, and you were somehow able to borrow a uterus, get knocked up, and then have a baby with spinal bifida, they'd be looking at a whole lotta lawyers. Respecting the patient is not a statistically sensible scenario. You must remember that in California, students are not individual people capable of making their own health decisions. Rather, they are the summation of their risk factors, a malpractice-suit-waiting-to-happen that threatens the foundation of the health services budget. Even if you were a 90 year-old hysterectomized nun living in isolation, it wouldn’t cost them anything to recommend folic acid. But if they didn’t, and you were somehow able to borrow a uterus, get knocked up, and then have a baby with spinal bifida, they’d be looking at a whole lotta lawyers. Respecting the patient is not a statistically sensible scenario.

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