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Dr. Sanjay Gupta
CNN Chief Medical Correspondent
Over this past week, I had some interesting conversations with colleagues who are also health care professionals. These conversations usually start with, "You know what I hate about the media ... ?"
Now, over the past eight years, I have grown accustomed to being engaged in these sort of discussions where I am asked about everything the "media" have reported over the past few months, and asked to defend things point by point. It can be a challenging task.
This time, however, the topic was H1N1, or swine flu.
I spent the weekend thinking about what I was being told, and realized there was a larger point here.
People were scared, more than I had seen in a long time. And, health care professionals were blaming the media - accusing them of being alarmist.
| Jack, Montauk, NY |
September 1st, 2009 9:58 pm ET Want to come to my school to talk to the parents? (Like you have nothing else to do!) |
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| Annie Kate |
September 1st, 2009 9:59 pm ET Thanks for the checklist – it is pretty much exactly what we do for regular flu and what I would have done without any better suggestions. Glad to know this is what is recommended by the medical community. |
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| riza |
September 1st, 2009 10:21 pm ET excellent advice dr gupta. . . actually that's the way flu is being treated. . .the reason for panic for some is because the media have the tendency to exaggerate things. . . |
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