Re: Removing the blindfold on medicines pricing. And related matters pertaining to HPV
Dr English has, very kindly, reminded us of the previous contributions by him and by others (eg Jit and colleagues).
Firstly, I entirely support Dr English’s plea. And I am surprised that the Commons’ Select Committeeon Health has been silent.
Secondly, I must ask the protagonists of HPV vaccination (including Dr English and NHS England) whether they would continue to stick tbe vaccine into young, pre-pubertal girls and boys with gay abandon? Would they not attempt to teach them the wisdom of reserving the sexual activities relating to the vulval, ano-perineal and the phallic structures to the post-pubertal period?
It may be tempting to pass the buck to the health educators at school. But, sometimes, maybe many times, children do listen to the stethoscope wielding doctors more readily.
The public health experts of today were possibly not born then. But in the 1960s public health, we (I and chaps like me in that era) doctors in the school health service used to be invited by the school heads to talk and discuss delicate matters with groups of school children).
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Re: Removing the blindfold on medicines pricing. And related matters pertaining to HPV
Dr English has, very kindly, reminded us of the previous contributions by him and by others (eg Jit and colleagues).
Firstly, I entirely support Dr English’s plea. And I am surprised that the Commons’ Select Committeeon Health has been silent.
Secondly, I must ask the protagonists of HPV vaccination (including Dr English and NHS England) whether they would continue to stick tbe vaccine into young, pre-pubertal girls and boys with gay abandon? Would they not attempt to teach them the wisdom of reserving the sexual activities relating to the vulval, ano-perineal and the phallic structures to the post-pubertal period?
It may be tempting to pass the buck to the health educators at school. But, sometimes, maybe many times, children do listen to the stethoscope wielding doctors more readily.
The public health experts of today were possibly not born then. But in the 1960s public health, we (I and chaps like me in that era) doctors in the school health service used to be invited by the school heads to talk and discuss delicate matters with groups of school children).
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