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In article <1993Jan4.175616.25604@aoa.aoa.utc.com> carl@aoa.aoa.utc.com (Carl Witthoft) writes:
|In article <lis.725901078@chaos.cs.brandeis.edu> lis@chaos.cs.brandeis.edu (Elisabeth Riba) writes:
|>Can anyone in the area recommend a good allergist in the Boston area?
|>Preferably someone whose solution to my sniffles won't involve getting
|>rid of my cat.
|x
|This should really be in sci.med, but:
|SOrry, you don't get to choose a solution to science based on
|your personal preferences.  Either you are allergic to cats or
|you aren't. Picking a MD won't change facts.
|Feynmann put it somewhat better during the Challenger hearings.  I
|paraphrase: one cannot select an answer based on public relations,
|because Nature will not be fooled.

Well, Carl, I think you have characterized her request a bit unfairly.
No respectable MD will tell her that she isn't allergic to her cat if
she is.  But there may be some who will tell her that the only
solution is to get rid of the animal and others who will be willing to
work harder with her to help her get along with it.  In other words
Elisabeth is rejecting out of hand a certain solution, not a certain
diagnosis.