As a physician and as one whose own attention deficit disorder has been treated effectively for years by Ritalin, I believe that this campaign is destructive to the many thousands of people who suffer from the disorder and for whom Ritalin is a safe and effective therapy.
This time, the Rampton admissions panel agreed that he had a personality disorder, noted that he had expressed motivation to be treated, acknowledged that he had been treated effectively at Woodhill but concluded that it would be "not appropriate" to give him a bed in the new unit.
A state lab later performed a necropsy, which showed that the probable cause of death was a strain of pneumonia that would likely have been treated effectively by antibiotics.
Years ago, when the family was living in Pakistan, other children in the family with similar ailments had been treated effectively with small doses of paracetamol and antibiotics.
I've been treated effectively, and I am neither vulnerable nor confused now, and I am disturbed by the ongoing, socially sanctioned marginalization of Lyme disease patients and the doctors who are doing their best to treat them given inadequate attention from federal agencies and tremendously inadequate independent federal research into this epidemic.
Choose to be co-operative in all situations so that the medical staff can do their job and you can leave, having been treated effectively.
A rash, which (due to poor awareness or sub-optimal management) may have developed to grade ⩾2 in older studies, may have been treated earlier and more effectively in RACHEL.
Massachusetts was institutionalizing huge numbers of poor children on Medicaid for emotional issues -- autism, bipolar disorder, post-traumatic stress disorder, for example -- who may have been treated more effectively through in-house care.
