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There is a huge difference between going to the emergency for sniffles and other minor inconveniences (which people do already anyway, but I digress) and for ignoring the symptoms and advice of a medical professional for almost a week while the kids health obviously worsened.

I have no sympathy for people like this and feel they should get all the disgust that is being shown to them right now. You don't trust a what a Dr. is saying, fine, go to another, go to a walk-in clinic. But when the child was obviously not improving, they should have know that the horseradish balm was actually horse####.

This wasn't ignorance, or a 'mistake', it was negligence.

Along with societies helicopter parenting and dumbing down/ultra safety minded everything, I also am baffled at the fear of modern medicine. I just don't understand why people are like this. This should be the golden age of information and discovery but for every step forward we seem to take many backwards.