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Such a tease Medical history is literally strewn with moments of deserved elation. Few triumphs, though, are impermeable to subsequent challenge. Even world changers like the discovery of penicillin aren’t immutable, antimicrobial resistance, now a perennial feature in the WHO top ten global health threat compilations, the spanner in the works. The (infinitely more poignant) corollary is the scenario in which a ‘new intervention’ clearly works, but persuading the (for want of a better word) ‘community’ to engage becomes an even larger hurdle than the evidence accumulated. Think of the Wright brothers and their early attempts in Kitty Hawk to launch; the arrival, stage left of the lover seconds after the star-crossed partner ruffles the blue velvet curtain and leaves to the right; the banked on favourite for the quarter mile title slipping in the final straight to be usurped at the tape. This, though, is how events...
Source: Archives of Disease in Childhood - Category: Pediatrics Authors: Tags: Highlights from this issue Source Type: research