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> > Alergy topic one: I went to the Johns Hopkins Alergy clinic to
> > be tested and instead paid 400 dollars to be told,
> > by the clinic's head Vodoo doctor, that
> > they could not predict allergies to bee stings. They would
> > not test us. In my humble opinion, a big waste of money.
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> What?! Seems like allergy testing has a fairly well-established protocol
> and clinical record-- as testified by the numerous postings on this topic
> in the past few weeks. I'd report the doctor who told you this to the AMA
Conrad,
The John's Hopkins Alergy clinic is, from what I have been told, a
world renown and highly prestigious institution, and the doctor was
the head of that clinic. He also told me that the 18 years of
painful alergy therapy that I underwent as a youngster was a waste of
time. Perhaps things have changed in the 6 or so years since that
consultation, but as the inside cover of one college textbook said,
"Todays medicine; tomorrow's placebos".
Dave Einhorn
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