I am sorry that you felt offended by the poster's words. It is a fact that Pharma Companies push medications on the unsuspecting public that cause harm. They have not taken the oath to do no harm and often mislead doctors about medication contraindications and side effects.
That is a commonly held opinion, but that's about all it is. It makes a ton of sense until you have direct experience working as a doctor or nurse. I am an oncology RN. I can totally "understand" the lay public's sentiment, but it is based upon not having all of the information. It's easy to attribute dark motives from afar.
It has been proven scientifically that chemo and radiation do harm healthy cells in the body and repress the immune systems of patients. There are many alternative treatments in Europe and elsewhere that have proven results when it comes to cancer treatment.
Doctor's stay in business when people remain unwell. Should their business rely on healthy patients then I would say you would be correct. Trauma is not the same thing as long term medical issues.
Chemotherapy kicks your *advertiser censored*. It kills fast growing cells, which cancer cells are. It also kills normally fast growing cells in the gut and in the bone marrow, thus all of the truly agonizing side effects.
It's easy to say (and believe) that somewhere else (far away, usually) there exists a superior treatment that is being withheld from us. That goes perfectly with the sentiment that doctors are invested in keeping people sick to keep the bucks rolling in. I have yet to see the evidence of better treatments from "afar", and I sincerely believe they would be used and incorporated if they worked.
Would you believe they use ARSENIC for a certain kind of leukemia? That tells me the profession is OPEN to all possibilities, even seemingly strange ones. They have their eyes and ears open, and I trust them.
The glaring problem with logic in this sentiment is that those motives would destabilize the system and destroy it. We'd be in the dark ages, medically, but we just keep going forward.
And besides, every single one of us is GOING THERE SOMEDAY. To the hospital, to the mercy of a doctor and Big Pharma. You, your precious child, your beloved family member. It's going to mess with your head and disable you being there for your ill loved ones, and get mightily in the way of getting care in the first place.
Lots of people go to their graves with mistrust toward the current medical profession, and they go to the same place that all who trust it go to
I am convinced myself the system which I'm defending is full of unconscionable hyperinflated costs, human incompetence and selfishness. But it's what we have, and in my direct experience, it works more often, if you work it, than if you don't.
