"Deathcare." That is a suitable description of America's health care system.
I mentioned my mother-in-law in a comment ahead on this thread. She was "diagnosed" with thyroid cancer. The treatment was to isolate her in a room for 24 hours and inject highly radioactive iodine into her body to eradicate the thyroid cancer. Sound fun?
"Deathcare." That is a suitable description of America's health care system.
I mentioned my mother-in-law in a comment ahead on this thread. She was "diagnosed" with thyroid cancer. The treatment was to isolate her in a room for 24 hours and inject highly radioactive iodine into her body to eradicate the thyroid cancer. Sound fun?
Sure, it killed the thyroid cancer but she now has full blown lymphoma. She's 76 and about to embark on a full treatment course of chemotherapy. You know, the cancer treatment where they inject poisons into your body and hope it kills off the cancer cells before it kills the patient off? One would think that after decades of cancer research and the billions spent thereon that they would have come up with a better, less toxic way to treat cancer than this?
Cancer treatment today involves burning the hell out of the patient with radiation, mutilating the patient by cutting off various body parts, or poisoning the hell out of the patient. With all the supposedly brilliant minds involved in oncology one would think someone would have come up with something better.
My mother went in for a routine mammogram years ago. They found some suspicious pre-cancerous tissues. She, being a bit of a tough-nut, told them straight up that they could burn her, they could mutilate her but she was not going to permit them to poison her. Boy did the nurses and oncologist throw a fit, how dare she question their methods! She stayed firm. They did radiation and a double mastectomy but she never had chemo. That was 15 years ago. She's turning 80 and still going strong. Did they save her with their mutilation? Maybe. Then again, maybe the suspicious pre-cancerous tissues would never have developed into full blown cancer. One thing is for certain. The older I get the more and more I am realizing how little I know and just how little everyone else actually knows. Especially the experts.
"Deathcare." That is a suitable description of America's health care system.
I mentioned my mother-in-law in a comment ahead on this thread. She was "diagnosed" with thyroid cancer. The treatment was to isolate her in a room for 24 hours and inject highly radioactive iodine into her body to eradicate the thyroid cancer. Sound fun?
Sure, it killed the thyroid cancer but she now has full blown lymphoma. She's 76 and about to embark on a full treatment course of chemotherapy. You know, the cancer treatment where they inject poisons into your body and hope it kills off the cancer cells before it kills the patient off? One would think that after decades of cancer research and the billions spent thereon that they would have come up with a better, less toxic way to treat cancer than this?
Cancer treatment today involves burning the hell out of the patient with radiation, mutilating the patient by cutting off various body parts, or poisoning the hell out of the patient. With all the supposedly brilliant minds involved in oncology one would think someone would have come up with something better.
Spot on - all of what you said! It's crazy and billions have been spent, over the course of decades, and they still use the same methods! Nuts.
My mother went in for a routine mammogram years ago. They found some suspicious pre-cancerous tissues. She, being a bit of a tough-nut, told them straight up that they could burn her, they could mutilate her but she was not going to permit them to poison her. Boy did the nurses and oncologist throw a fit, how dare she question their methods! She stayed firm. They did radiation and a double mastectomy but she never had chemo. That was 15 years ago. She's turning 80 and still going strong. Did they save her with their mutilation? Maybe. Then again, maybe the suspicious pre-cancerous tissues would never have developed into full blown cancer. One thing is for certain. The older I get the more and more I am realizing how little I know and just how little everyone else actually knows. Especially the experts.