I liken chemotherapy to bleeding a patient with leaches. It might sound ‘good’ to our understanding of medicine, but it sure seems like killing a fly on a plate glass window with a sledgehammer.
tell that to the people who it actually saved.
I liken chemotherapy to bleeding a patient with leaches. It might sound ‘good’ to our understanding of medicine, but it sure seems like killing a fly on a plate glass window with a sledgehammer.
I agree. Not too far into the future, we will see chemo as utter barbarism as well.
I don’t think bleeding a patient with leeches is what was being described..
I don’t think this is what was beign referred to here on Washington, I think they just opened Washington’s veins and let it rip.
Could be wrong. Leeches actually have their place in modern medicine, they release a strong anto coagulant into the bloodstream.
Really, you liken Chemotherapy to bleeding a Patient?
Have you been treated with Chemotherapy, I have and I am here to tell the tale. The tale is, I am still breathing rather than being dead for the past twelve years.
If you are trying to make the point that future Medical Progress will make the methods used today seem primitive, try using a different example.
You obviously no nothing of today’s Chemotherapy Treatment Regimens.
Chemotherapy is a kind of selective lethal intoxication to cancer cells, but healthy cells suffer too. Targetied chemo is far better. Medicine is unlikely to ever allow people to live forever. All living things will die, even this planet earth will die.
My mother was diagnosed with cancer in 1959. She had a large tumor removed from her inner right thigh. The doctors wanted to use maggots to eat away the dead flesh after her surgery. Dad said no. I was born a few months later and she passed away last week at the age of 92.