Remember the tempest in a teacup that leapt onto our screens when President Trump used the bully pulpit to pretend he knows anything about pregnancy and pain-killers? Well, here’s the other end of the controversy:
They found that orders for Tylenol – also known by the generic names acetaminophen and paracetamol – were 10% lower than predicted for pregnant emergency department patients aged 15 to 44. And outpatient prescriptions of leucovorin for children aged 5 to 17 were 71% higher than expected during the same study period, late September to early December.
Researchers observed no similar shifts in comparable medications, suggesting the changes were directly tied to the briefing. [AP]
While there are certainly caveats, in the end it’s one of those incidents in which you have to ask if these people really deserve the label ‘thinking creatures.’
