True. Most drugs and medical devices do work and have a lot of data behind them to prove that. It costs many millions to get that data and approvals.
That said if the data isn't there, regardless of the cost of the surgery, do you want to risk your health/your child's health on a hope? If so sign up for a medical trial to help get that data and prove it,most are not only free but pay you for doing so.
Exactly. They are different and should not be "autism". Technically my kid is not non-verbal but limited to one or two words, like if he wants to watch blue's clues he'll just say blue or if he's hungry he will just say yum yum.
I'm not a doctor but you and your niece have different conditions and likely have different causes and potentially different treatments. We should eliminate the word autism and separate it into like 5 or 10 different conditions and study them separately.
Agreed. I feel like if we separate them doctors and scientists could study causes and care more effectively. What you need is totally different from my son, why are they combined? Yes the common cold, the flu and TB all result in coughing but don't have the same treatment. They seem more related then "autism".
The difficulty of diagnosing autism shows this. If you get strep throat, take a test and it's either positive or negative. No one can say "yeah, it says I don't have strep throat but..."
Yes the insurance system is horrible. Yes accountants should not be making medical decisions. That said dbs for epilepsy is not approved for anyone under 18. It can only be done "off label". I understand the insurance company not covering it. Location of stimulation needs to be precise and their brain is growing and changing as they age into adulthood. There have not been sufficient studies to prove safety and effective use of dbs in teenagers for epilepsy. Yes my child has epilepsy, I have previously manufactured dbs systems professionally. It may be great, it may be great for them but I can totally see why the insurance didn't cover in this case.
I believe that there should be way more than 2 conditions which are currently just called autism. You seem to have one, my son is non-verbal and physically unable to complete basic tasks like eating a bowl of cereal, others feel uncomfortable if someone touches their face, others need to constantly fidgit, some require music to feel comfortable, some are obsessed over a certain topic like boats or trains or Lego or whatever. All are currently "autism" but don't seem to be related. I wish they got rid of the "spectrum"and studied the separate types as separate conditions.
A counter point to the passport thing is the size of the us. You can travel the same distance as Spain to Finland to Ukraine without a passport. Go to la, ny, boston, Dallas, Miami and Seattle and tell me they have the same culture.
I get your point but in my experience android works well with other android. Apple works well with other apple. Mixing them and everything seems barely useable. Like using a android phone to control an Apple TV.
Depends...how well written the form is. Often stuff like this is pushed to libraries who have covered all the gotchas but you have to be careful not to get into dependency hell. Understand where to use them and not. For example don't use left_pad but also don't make your own encryption.
How easy is it to allow new lines,very easy. The important part is only accepting new lines e.g. /r/n a well made form can include extra functions but anything not defined should be denied.
Also consider you likely should not accept a username with a semi-colon in it...
All good, wasn't an issue just commenting on my disgust of that
I believe the left check list is stuff no related to the task but stuff to "prepare" for starting the task. For example writing a book, before writing I should change the os on my computer and should read this paper on lexography and watch this video series on character growth arcs and I should buy a cat as good authors tend to have cats, well now I need to buy a cat food bowl and a water dish, I need to learn to use this software to track my writing, oh that can interpret my latex script, what's latex...several years later...oh the book yeah I'll start it right after I clean the cats litter box...
Umm yeah....things I didn't need to see for 500 Alex, material right there
I'm not dismissing mental health care. Mental health is very important and as a society we don't put enough into treating/helping/improving it.
Like your depression example, should they be in the same bucket? Now as a layman, my understanding is they are due to low levels of serotonin being absorbed before re-uptake. So they have a common cause and treating that cause will probably help both parties. If there is a different cause like insufficient serotonin creation that should be treated differently.
If we took a trial of a new treatment it may only help those with low serotonin creation but with both groups in the bucket it may be deemed ineffective since the group it helps in such a low percentage of "depression".
All of these conditions affect your life, all should be cared for, studied,treated etc. Yes they are serious.