Here are some links to some stories about some crap you don't need for your kid.
"Revealing how Dentists profit by abusing children" - An investigative report on a local dentist who was doing unnecessary, painful procedures in order to make more money.
"Children exposed to harmful radiation from unecessary CT scans" - An article giving CT scans for children with minor head bumps that are low risk for head trauma. A great example of parental paranoia mixed with a doctor being will to do it to charge for it
A Video of Obama taking about how doctor's are taking out a kids tonsils when it isn't necessary because they make more money than just diagnosing it as allergies.
"Many kids get unnecessary ear tubes" - A study that shows many kids who get Tympanostomy tubes because of ear infections don't actually need them.
"Flexible flat feet in children: a real problem?" - The American Academy of Pediatrics did a study of flat footed children and concluded that and excessive amount of orthopedic treatments have been prescribed unnecessarily.
Basically, people are paranoid and want a to "fix" their children and the doctors are greedy and want to charge for the proceedure which equals a lot of unnecessary treatments. So first, calm down. Everything is going to be alright. And next, don't just do it because the doctor says it. He is not perfect, above greed, infalible and he only knows about how 1% of the human body actually works, the rest is guess and check.
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