Modern medicine?

[texaspacker]

Doctor Estes delivered my brother back in 1964. Dr. Estes did it all. If your head got ripped off he fixed it with some spit and a toothpick.
My neighbor Gary Telford die today. Gary was diagnosed with stag 4 cancer on Friday. He had been tested and tested by so called "specialist" for about the last 6 months. Big Medicine couldn't figure out what was wrong with him. Big Pharma didn't get a chance to torture him with their voodoo modern medicine.
2020 just around the corner. Modern medicine?
Semper fi.
God bless!

[drop dead fred]

Well life expectancy is the highest it’s ever been some may cuss it but not this guy...

[BigRed323]

He likely had some odd form of cancer and Dr. Estes wouldn’t have had a clue.

Unfortunately there’s not a magic wand that tells doctors what is wrong right away. It can take time for weird cancers/diseases to be diagnosed especially if they don’t present with textbook clinical signs.

Sounds like even if they had diagnosed him earlier, you still would have started a thread about the “voodoo” medicine, aka the only drugs they have to treat cancer, so you would’ve found something to complain about it anyway.

Sorry for the loss your neighbor.

[JLivi1224]

Unfortunately there’s not a magic wand that tells doctors what is wrong right away. It can take time for weird cancers/diseases to be diagnosed especially if they don’t present with textbook clinical signs.

Sounds like even if they had diagnosed him earlier, you still would have started a thread about the “voodoo” medicine, aka the only drugs they have to treat cancer, so you would’ve found something to complain about it anyway.

Come on man. Back button.

[tex4k]

Welcome to the wormhole!! Google your way in and have your mind blown. I avoid most modern medicine and pharmatoxins as much as possible. I do believe that modern medicine has its place, if I think i may in immediate threat of dieting like a heart attack or stumped my pinkie toe, I'll definitely be in the ER begging the doc to not let me die.

[IowaHunter]

I’ll say this, doctors are fallible like us all. My wife’s chemo doc lost his wife to cancer years ago and he’s beyond devoted to the patient and trying what may work. I’ll give big pharma a shot long as it doesn’t make her sicker.

We’re on the edge of the five leaved plant soon. Momma’s been feeling like crap endlessly this past week. She hasn’t given into the options yet but I’m investigating our options.

[BigRed323]

Come on man. Back button.

He asked. I answered.

[texaspacker]

I'm wrong. I'm sorry. Big Pharma and Big Medicine are our friends. Modern medicine is the bomb!
Forgot we live in a leaf blower society. If it ain't in your yard. It ain't your problem.

[JLivi1224]

He asked. I answered.

Clearly you realized you sounded like a richard in your last paragraph and added the condolences. Well done. (Not sarcasm)

[BigRed323]

Clearly you realized you sounded like a richard in your last paragraph and added the condolences. Well done. (Not sarcasm)

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[Landrover]

Sorry for his family and all involved.
Interesting way to grieve.

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[curtintex]

Sorry for the loss of your friend.

[okrattler]

Sorry to hear about your buddy. My brother had bladder cancer and it took two times of running a scope up there to find out that he did. It shouldn't have but it did. Luckily it wasn't bad enough that they couldn't remove it and he was alright afterwards.

Doctors make mistakes sometimes. Aside from that things just happen. From the outside it's easy to look at things that should have or could have happened differently. Usually by then it don't matter much. I think all it boils down to is when it's your time to go you're gonna go and that's it. Medicine seems to either prolong or speed up the process. I've seen it go both ways. I'd rather just go and get it over with. To hell with doctors and medicine. Seems to me once you start going to the doctors you're starting to rely on medicine. If my body ain't strong enough to fight I figure that'll be the day I don't need to be around anymore.

[stickbowcoop]

As one of the many TBH'ers with cancer, I have no love of big pharma. But what other options do we really have for treatment? It is easy to say you will just lay down and die when you get sick, when you aren't the one who is sick. It is a different thing to be the one with the diagnosis.

You can blame medicine for the loss of your friend, but everybody makes mistakes. It may have been a rare or difficult thing to diagnose. My mother died of cancer in 1988. It took them a year to diagnose it (diagnosis and treatment have come a long way since then) and by then it was too late; it spread from her lungs to her brain. But we do not blame the doctors.

[Chase This!]

Doctor Estes delivered my brother back in 1964. Dr. Estes did it all. If your head got ripped off he fixed it with some spit and a toothpick.
My neighbor Gary Telford die today. Gary was diagnosed with stag 4 cancer on Friday. He had been tested and tested by so called "specialist" for about the last 6 months. Big Medicine couldn't figure out what was wrong with him. Big Pharma didn't get a chance to torture him with their voodoo modern medicine.
2020 just around the corner. Modern medicine?
Semper fi.
God bless!

Huh?