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The use od D-Dimer is entirely non-specific for this diagnosis and any modern physician who would promote this theory is clearly practicing outside the standard of care.

Today's "standard of care" is telling people not to take any supplements, not even any of various OTC pills and liquids for cold and flu. Instead, the "standard of care" is when someone gets to a bad enough point, they give the person something toxic to the kidneys, and shove a tube down their throat while their lungs fill with fluid, making the ventilator useless, and even more harmful.

What is it you're after by shilling for all this BS?

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Today's "standard of care" is telling people not to take any supplements, not even any of various OTC pills and liquids for cold and flu. Instead, the "standard of care" is when someone gets to a bad enough point, they give the person something toxic to the kidneys, and shove a tube down their throat while their lungs fill with fluid, making the ventilator useless, and even more harmful. What is it you're after by shilling for all this BS?

Clever pivot. So lets dissect your argument. I am referring to the standard of care in the diagnosis of cardiac disease, specifically ischemic cardiac disease. So, I guess because you have to pivot to a non-sensical argument, you either have no answer to what I have written because I am correct and expert in the use of clinical labs to diagnose critical illness, or you have no nuance to understand what the argument is

As for telling people to not take supplements -- there is no standard of care on what supplements to give. So you are not even in the realm of the definition of the terms that we are discussing. I am not aware that anyone every said people should not take supplements as a standard of care. I told people to take Vitamin D and Zinc, and I continue to do so. Early on, I posted people should take vitamins as it would not be harmful, and possibly helpful, however the literature does not demonstrate that this recommendation rises to the level of "standard of care". So, I guess, I would appreciate it if you would learn the definitions of words that you are using

In terms of your absolutely dazzling lack of understanding of A-a gradient hypoxemia and the use of positive pressure ventilation in relationship to air space disease and extrinsic processes such as pulmonary edema, thanking you for proving that you are capable of cutting and pasting.

Feel free to go to medical school for four years, earning a doctorate in the process, then take 5 - 7 years of post-doctoral training, be examined buy countless examiners, certify your continuing education, and practice daily, then you can actually start to have a conversation on quite advanced things and debate the nuance.