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First published athttp://belilovskypediatrics.com/news/2007/03/07/war-and-peace/In my work as a pediatrician, every once in a while I am privileged to be asked to see a child of a military or law enforcement officer. ...Pediatrics, military and law enforcement are united, forst and foremost, by justified paranoia. In ten thousand children with fever, one will turn out to have meningitis. Of a million people who got parking tickets in 1977, one was Son of Sam. And of a dozen counter-attacks in the winter of 1944, one turned into the Battle of the Bulge. The ability to stay alert and ready for trouble through weeks or months of false alarms is what I call justified paranoia.We are united in staying away from the magic bullet. Spies and informants may lie; aerial photographs, Xrays, and physical evidence may be misleading; big guns and antibiotics may fail. Cops and soldiers look at you funny when you say, this ONE test tells me WITH ABSOLUTE CERTAINTY that this is the diagnosis. If you tell them that these three or four or five things point in the direction of one of these two or three diagnoses, and this is what you need to do to be safest in all likely events, they look at you — well, they look at you like you are their colleague.We are united in contempt for wishful thinking. Unilateral disarmament is positive assistance to the side that ignores pacifists; naturopathic medicine is positive assistance to diseases with naturally high mortality. Nature, like anarchy, is on the side of survival of the fittest. Survival of the beloved is as unnatural as one can imagine. This is where we come in.And, having faced friendly fire and adverse events, we understand the difference between the best possible decision under the circumstances, and post-factum omniscience.Where we part company is the question of personal risk. Not needing Kevlar apparel, my safety in in being behind those who do, and to them this post is dedicated.Specialties: Asthma care, patient-centered care

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