This is in the hospital complex on Lenox Hill; I know many of the people who work there, especially across the street at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center.
You people could not possibly be more wrong, and what you're saying makes no sense in terms of free market economics, to boot.
"Big Pharma" and smaller independent pharmaceutical companies are pouring tens of billions of dollars into cancer research. When new therapies come, they mean thousands of new jobs for doctors, researchers, and technicians. NO ONE working in cancer treatment is going to lose their jobs when cures are found. (And it is highly unlikely there is going to be a single cure anyway.) No company can afford not to be in this game because the competition is absolutely cutthroat, and the stakes are enormous.
If you know any oncologists, they have terrible, depressing jobs and not one of them -- clinical or researcher -- would have anything to do with covering up a cure. NO oncologist or cancer researcher would participate in suppressing a cure for this deadly disease. It's the fulfillment of their careers and lives to participate in anything that can help their patients.
Listen to yourselves. This might as well be DU.
Ridiculous.
No profit in the cure ever wonder when you do to a doctor for one thing and they want three tests for it every one gets a cut of the pie and my HMO doctor is one of then and he’s the fifth one $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$.
Agreed !
Your statement ...” (And it is highly unlikely there is going to be a single cure anyway.) ...”
Hits right on the mark, cancer is more of a “condition” then one single disease. It’s not like malaria!
A lot of people on the site love conspiracies, it’s their first solution out of the box to anything! The fact that they immediately point to “Big bad something” as the culprit tells me they spend way too much time watching TV!
Some are more cynical than others. I don’t think we were deriding the efforts at the actual care and research levels but more directed at the folks in the high towers. Sorry if that upset you.
Don’t bother trying to explain that a cure would be valuable.
Remember that people manipulated by emotions can NOT be influenced by facts. Angry, envious, scared people can not be reasoned with.
Just let them yap about “big pharma” and “doctors loosing ther jobs” in a conspiracy to murder researchers. It’s actually kinda funny.
You're right, "Big Pharma" with "Big Oil" are favorite libtard bogeymen.
Of course they are disgusting...they are meant to be. Posters get caught up in the zeitgeist of the topic then try and match and raise each other. Things get out of hand in no time.
The cure(s) for cancer seem very slow in evolving. The same vicious, brutal, murderous chemotherapy regimens drone on and on. With all the brilliant minds plus money working on the problem, where are the breakthroughs? One comes to mind...my wife had IORT last year which is a fabulous way to deal with breast cancer and radiation therapy. Keep good stuff coming.
Of course they are disgusting...they are meant to be. Posters get caught up in the zeitgeist of the topic then try and match and raise each other. Things get out of hand in no time.
The cure(s) for cancer seem very slow in evolving. The same vicious, brutal, murderous chemotherapy regimens drone on and on. With all the brilliant minds plus money working on the problem, where are the breakthroughs? One comes to mind...my wife had IORT last year which is a fabulous way to deal with breast cancer and radiation therapy. Keep good stuff coming.
You seemed to have missed the mark. It is the bean counters and hired thugs who work for Big Pharma who are the bad guys, not the doctors and researchers working to find a cure who are the good guys. This Dr was one of the good guys.
I was not questioning healthcare workers, physicians, or researchers. I was questioning the establishment. If you do not have questions about the establishment and their utter ruthlessness perhaps you are in the wrong place.
I hate to rain on your parade Freddie but Big Pharma has too much money tied up in research and chemo to let somebody come up with a cure that makes those million dollar mostly worthless chemo treatments obsolete. Why do you think marijuana is still listed as a class one drug? You can’t patent it. Doctors and health workers are not to blame. They just dispense what’s available.