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____/ Homer on Friday 01 Jul 2011 22:14 : \____
> Verily I say unto thee, that Roy Schestowitz spake thusly:
>> ____/ Homer on Friday 01 Jul 2011 20:14 : \____
>>> Verily I say unto thee, that Roy Schestowitz spake thusly:
>>>> ____/ Homer on Friday 01 Jul 2011 11:20 : \____
>>>>> Verily I say unto thee, that Roy Schestowitz spake thusly:
>>>>>
>>>>>> The problem comes when people replace real treatment with this
>>>>>> placebo, like when the evangelicals have people throw away their
>>>>>> pills (and then die)
>>>>>
>>>>> Yes, that is foolish, but then there are also times when medical
>>>>> treatment isn't much help either, or indeed actually causes death.
>>>>>
>>>>> Both my parents died from diseases they contracted /inside/ the
>>>>> hospitals they were admitted to, for example.
>>>>>
>>>>>> so that they can do their charlatan gig and make a lot of money.
>>>>>
>>>>> I've often thought the same thing about medical practitioners.
>>>>
>>>> It needs to be taken on statistical basis.
>>>
>>> That's little comfort to me, or my deceased parents.
>>
>> I know, but we cannot led anecdotal evidence alone imply that the
>> medical profession is a scam (to name the extreme ends).
>
> My parents' deaths were neither anecdotal nor mere statistics, and
> neither was the suffering they endured for many years at the hands
> of the apathetic and incompetent medical profession - most of whom
> seem to have more compassion for golf, private patients and money,
> than actually healing the sick.
>
> They should change the Hippocratic Oath to the Hypocritical Oath.
>
> I'm sure Ken Starks and his partner Diane would agree.
I don't know the circumstances of either cases, but to generalise and insinuating that GPs
are money-grabbing golf-loving playboys is similar to the painting of those who
resist religious lobbying as "militant". That generalisation gets us nowhere.
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