According to my experience, I at first, thought they were doing that on purpose.

Lately, I am more and more convinced that the system is flawed, enabling for such unwanted incidents.

I once found a way to contact head of pediatrics at local university, researching about correlation between antipyretics and thermal cramps in children.

He confirmed that he was trying to inform his colleagues for a decade that antipyretics (directly/indirectly) cause occurence of thermal cramps, but they wouldn't listen. Six years later, they released a poster, claiming 'fever is child's friend and should not be lowered.'

The irony was, one day we found it taped on the door of a local pediatric department. We brought our son in for bloodcheck as he had relatively high (38,5C) fever for three days.

First thing, a doctor wanted to do was administer antipyretic. ?!?

It's even more interesting to find a PubMed research paper where it was stated that a general health practitioner needs to read 19 professional articles per day to stay on track with the modern medicine.

Our local doctors didn't even get to read that paper taped on their door, and they should be the ones informing and directing parents.

Sorry for that outburst... It's a very touchy topic for me, got a lot of 'first hand' experience. :|