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Ursus:

--- Quote from: "Whooter" ---I wouldn't assume she didn't get proper care at this point.
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It would appear that her mother would have handled it differently. From the article in the OP:

"She had a 103.8 degree fever the afternoon before," said Debbie Hopkins, the girl's mother. "She had been out at (the Wilderness Ranch in Steelville) and came back to (her) cottage. They gave her Tylenol and her meds. If she had been at home and was that sick, I would have taken her to the hospital."[/list]

Whooter:

--- Quote from: "Ursus" ---
--- Quote from: "Whooter" ---I wouldn't assume she didn't get proper care at this point.
--- End quote ---
It would appear that her mother would have handled it differently. From the article in the OP:

"She had a 103.8 degree fever the afternoon before," said Debbie Hopkins, the girl's mother. "She had been out at (the Wilderness Ranch in Steelville) and came back to (her) cottage. They gave her Tylenol and her meds. If she had been at home and was that sick, I would have taken her to the hospital."[/list]
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Yes, but how do we know that is the right decision? If you call up the doctors and you child has a 103.8 fever they would ask you to try a few things to bring it down and ask you questions about her health before deciding if the child should be brought in or not.
Sometimes fevers spike and then go down again. I think we need to hear the whole story first before blaming anyone.

On another note: I read all the time here that program parents make really bad decisions regarding their childs safety. Why are you assuming they would have made the right one if this child had been home? Why the turn around in your thinking?

Ursus, it is obvious that you cherry pick sound bites to meet your agenda. Why dont you just let the investigation take its course and find out what happened instead of trying to push a negative spin on programs all the time?

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Ursus:

--- Quote from: "Whooter" ---
--- Quote from: "Ursus" ---
--- Quote from: "Whooter" ---I wouldn't assume she didn't get proper care at this point.
--- End quote ---
It would appear that her mother would have handled it differently. From the article in the OP:

"She had a 103.8 degree fever the afternoon before," said Debbie Hopkins, the girl's mother. "She had been out at (the Wilderness Ranch in Steelville) and came back to (her) cottage. They gave her Tylenol and her meds. If she had been at home and was that sick, I would have taken her to the hospital."[/list]
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Yes, but how do we know that is the right decision? If you call up the doctors and you child has a 103.8 fever they would ask you to try a few things to bring it down and ask you questions about her health before deciding if the child should be brought in or not.
Sometimes fevers spike and then go down again. I think we need to hear the whole story first before blaming anyone.
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Yes, bringing her to the hospital would have been the right decision. It could have quite possibly, perhaps quite probably, saved her life.

--- Quote from: "Whooter" ---On another note: I read all the time here that program parents make really bad decisions regarding their childs safety. Why are you assuming they would have made the right one if this child had been home? Why the turn around in your thinking?
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No "turn around" at all, on *my* part. You must be stereotyping me, just like you seem to do with a lot of other survivors here who do not support your propagandizing efforts.

Not all parents are alike. Some are not exactly what one might call "program parents." Some have little or no say in the decision to put their kid in a program. And some might well have made a different decision had they fully understood what they were dealing with.

--- Quote from: "Whooter" ---Ursus, it is obvious that you cherry pick sound bites to meet your agenda. Why dont you just let the investigation take its course and find out what happened instead of trying to push a negative spin on programs all the time?
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Are you talkin' to me 'bout cherry picking? LOLOLLLLL. Go talk to George Washington about his cherry tree. :D

Joel:
Edited: Wednesday, October 06, 2010

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