If you want to maintain your faith in medecine, I do not recommend moving to a different country. If doctors knew what they were doing, then how can their methods and treatments be entirely different from, and incompatible with those of their counterparts across an ocean? And how come the treatments in a country seamlessly integrate with the pharma industry's offerings in that country?
Simple case in point: no.1 most ingested drug by infants and children in the US? Tylenol. Readily available -- in every grocery store, in fact -- in the U.S. but not in France.
No.1 most ingested drug by infants and children in France? Doliprane (also a fever and pain reducer). Not available in the US.
And you'll also find yourself trying to arbitrate between recommendations and drug treatment A - prescribed in say, France, for 3 months to try to curb your child's endless bouts with ear infections - (nota bene: the definition for ear infections is actually not the same in both places); and treatment B, also known as nada, prescribed in say, the US.
Additionally, how can the list of supposed aggravating factors for, oh, ear infections, in the US have nothing in common with the list of aggravating factors in France, except for smoking, which is a non-issue because I gave that up years ago?
It'd be all ironic and I'd be able to laugh along with Alanis if my girls' ears and pains and sleepless nights (and my sleepless nights) and their ability to hear and speak properly weren't in the balance .
Can you sense the frustration? ;)
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