Are the miracles of modern medicine worth it, if for some, the cure(diagnosis) is worse than the disease?
I’ve worked with people who had gadolinium levels that were off the charts toxic. It’s commonly used in MRI brain scans as a contrast agent when identifying size, location and type of brain tumors. It greatly enhances the images.
Symptoms are generally experienced at an acute level shortly after having a contrast MRI and at a chronic level for years following their last contrast MRI.
If you have normal kidney function, it is gone from the body in about two hours. It is dangerous for people with decreased kidney function.
Chelating agents can assist in flushing it from the body.
Since it is a diagnostic tool often involving diagnosis of brain related tumors which are often inoperable, the question of it being iatrogenic is mute as the cancer tumor often is the real cause.
With modern technology, one would like to think it is not a crapshoot; that the "some" could be identified and the risk avoided.
Norris married Dianne Holechek in 1958. In 1963 their first child, Mike, was born. His daughter Dina was born in 1964 out of an extramarital affair.[30] Later, he had a second son, Eric, with his wife in 1965. After 30 years of marriage, Norris and Holechek divorced in 1988.
On November 28, 1998, he married former model Gena O’Kelley, 23 years Norris’ junior. O’Kelley had two children from a previous marriage. She delivered twins on August 30, 2001: Dakota Alan Norris, a boy, and Danilee Kelly Norris, a girl.[31]
They call her a “Ms” and she is a wife... I would be really mad to be called “Ms” when I am very PROUD to be a “Mrs”
Wait, what? Chuck Norris sues? Chuck Norris doesn’t sue. Chuck Norris gives a stare and there is immediately a settlement. People need to know who they are dealing with here. There is no theory of evolution, just a list of animals Chuck Norris let live. Giraffes were created when Chuck Norris uppercutted a horse. Chuck Norris’ calendar goes straight from March 31st to April 2nd. No one fools Chuck Norris.
I think I’m definitely in the minority, but I am not a big fan of modern medicine. We are all going to die. I like antibiotics as much as the next guy, but a lot of this stuff is hugely expensive, has bad side-effects, and enhances the broad misperception that we somehow deserve a perfect world in which no bad thing ever happens to anyone.
I do not avoid modern medicine entirely, and I do not mean to suggest that anyone else avoid it. But if my doctor ever tells me I have a serious medical problem, one of the options I would strongly weigh for myself is just to pretty much forget that bit of information and carry on until I can’t carry on.
IF thats the same stuff they gave me, it sort of gives you a “burning” sensation when they inject it in the line...its like it goes through your whole body...
Whoo hoo you got that right. Eat well, take supplements, exercise, hang out with lots of trees, keep the stress as low as you can. Have a dog and pet it. Laugh. Pray.
And skip all the medical crap as much as possible.
https://radiology.ucsf.edu/patient-care/patient-safety/contrast/mri-with-contrast-gadolinium-policy
Interesting link.
I’d just pay them...
When Chuck Norris shoots bad guys, the bullets don’t kill them, he wills them to die...the bullets just provide a plausible explanation.
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