France is famous for its wine and Health Care:
In my post on PIP implant I suggested that the French should stick to wine making: I was unfortunately wrong. They only make the labels it would seem.
In the wine worlds most dramatic news since the Austrians added anti-freeze to their winesyears ago one of the big Burgundian houses is in serious trouble.
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Four directors of Maison Labouré-Roi, the 180-year-old Burgundy negociant house, have been accused of various counts of wine fraud.
…..Public Prosecutor Eric Lallement said during a press conference held in Dijon last night (13 June) that the fraud office was first alerted due to a disparity in figures between what the company was actually bottling and what it should have been, given the yields declared at harvest time. ‘It was as if the company was managing to vinify 100% of its musts, which is impossible,’ he said.
On investigating this, he said police found evidence of several specific frauds: firstly bypassing legal blending limits, affecting every level of the production from Grand Cru, Premier Cru and Village appellations, and adding table wine to wine musts to top up the ‘angel’s share’, Lallement said. He said the suspected fraud related to 500,000 bottles of wine, worth €2.7m in sales.
The second fraud detailed was over wine quality and labeling. ‘When the company needed to fulfil an order of a wine that it had run out of, it swapped labels with other wines,’ said Lallement. The magnitude of this fraud is estimated to be around 1.1m bottles.
****PIP implants manufactured by a French farm using non medical grade material: read it all here>>>>
So should they now stick to Health Care; best in the world according to WHO a few years back!
©2008 Am Ang Zhang
The second fraud detailed was over wine quality and labeling. ‘When the company needed to fulfil an order of a wine that it had run out of, it swapped labels with other wines,’ said Lallement. The magnitude of this fraud is estimated to be around 1.1m bottles.
Reading a new book sometimes brings you the unexpected.
In Ahead of the Curves, the author told of the story he heard of Jacques Chirac and his pact with West African marabouts, witch doctors. He was told to sacrifice one of his daughters if he wanted his presidency. Soon after his younger daughter, began suffering from anorexia nervosa.
So, I Googled Chirac’s daughter:
Telegraph: By Colin Randall
Published: 07 Dec 2004
President Jacques Chirac's wife has broken a 30-year silence to talk publicly about the anorexia that drove their elder daughter to try repeatedly to kill herself.
"A mother who fails with a child, who cannot bring a sick child back to health, always feels guilty," Bernadette Chirac said on French television. "And a father, too."
Laurence Chirac, now 46, was a promising medical student and worked for a short time after her studies with Samu, the emergency medical service, in Paris.
But she had suffered from an acute form of the eating disorder since she was 15, leading to several stays in hospitals and clinics.
Sixteen years ago, during her father's second presidential campaign, she was taken to hospital amid widespread rumours that she had died.
"Being famous can be harmful when one is faced with illness," Mrs Chirac said. "Confronting this kind of difficulty, you just want to hide from the gaze of others."
Laurence, whose younger sister Claude is a key member of the president's team at the Elysée, continued to suffer from the condition. In 1990 she tried to commit suicide by jumping out of the window of her fourth-floor flat.
A nurse assigned to her round-the-clock care was unable to stop Miss Chirac, who survived with a broken pelvis and head injuries.
Little has been heard of her since and Mrs Chirac said merely that she always kept the hope "pinned to my heart" that her daughter would recover.
Mrs Chirac has been the president since 1994 of a charity seeking to create better conditions for children and teenagers in hospital, enabling them to listen to or play music and play sports. She agreed to talk about her daughter on a France 3 discussion programme, “You Cannot Please Everyone”, to help publicise a new clinic for adolescents, La Maison de Solenn, funded by her charity.
"These children need some gaiety in their lives, to be able to see the sun," said Mrs Chirac,
French Health Care as experienced by the President’s daughter.
We did not do too badly with our own Adolescent Psychiatric Units.
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2 comments:
Dr No reads the moral of your post as less is more, ie the more doctors try to control patients (admission, section, forced feeding), the more the patient resists. Do the opposite (patient can go home, even die if the want to) and the patient still resists - in Nicola's case by gaining weight...even if she did do so rather rapidly...and, of course, having a spook for a dad is enough to put anyone on edge...
E's case (the one recently in the news) is very different. She was almost twice N's age, very different family by the sound of things, significant co-morbdities and a long history of failed forced feeding attempts (albeit with one early success). She was, if such a concept is meaningful, in end-stage anorexia nervosa.
Can a patient be allowed to die? Yes - we do it all the time.
Can a seventeen year old patient be allowed to die? Yes - we reluctantly and with great sadness do it from time to time.
Can a seventeen year old Anorexia Nervosa patient be allowed to die? Not if we can possibly help it. But anorexia nervosa is truly pernicious illness, and sometimes it defeats us all - although usually a bit later in the patient's life.
Would Dr No have discharged Nicola as you did? Almost certainly, and probably for the same reasons!
Remember the early days of treating phobia when bus loads of phobic patient from none other than the Maudsley were taken to Piccadilly Circus and dumped there. It was known as implosion therapy. then later suicidal patients were given the sharpest razor blades so that they can get on with it.
In Psychiatry, the best treatment is without doubt Placebos. But placebos only works if neither the patient nor the parents knew.
In reading DN's blog I reposted my patient where I let her die.
Well, did I or was that part of Haley/Minuchin treatment? You can decide.
No the early day psychiatrists did not mean harm to come to the Picadilly or Razor patients, but when non-doctors are involved, good luck to the said patients.
Perhaps DN;s patients was of Millennium Trilogy quality and ooops, what was the state doing?
Please let the real doctors or better still the real psychiatrist get on with their real work, if only they are allowed to remember how to give all the guidelines floating around.
The Cockroach Catcher retired partly because he sensed he would not be allowed to carry on his own doctoring ways.