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[Ian Batten]

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> I know you sign your emails Dr, and you seem to show some knowledge =20=

> of the NHS, so please help me - how could a 6 year old give informed =20=

> consent to a valve replacement? An 8 year old to a bone marrow =20
> transplant? The only time that parents don't have immediate carte =20
> blanch=E9

is when they propose to have a stomach biopsy carried out to look =20
speculatively for indications of whatever it was that Wakefield said =20
caused autism.   And the existence of Munchausen's by Proxy implies =20
lack of carte blanche.  And the row about hysterectomy in handicapped =20=

children.  And I can't get depot provera for my daughters on my say-=20
so, either.

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