• stink@lemmygrad.ml
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      A family friend’s husband was on the heavier side, thought he should lose weight. Instead of going to a doctor for advice he saw some woman on Dr. Oz peddling some at-home elixir for weight loss and he drank a gallon of that slop every day.

      Died from something like kidney or liver failure a few months later. Widowed his wife and 4 kids, two of which were toddlers.

      These natural remedies are what killed Steve Jobs, one of the richest men in the world, do these people think it’ll go any better for them?

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    Without even look at whatever statistics they’re using, I’m going to go ahead and assume it’s not delineating what stage of cancer the patient was at when chemo started and not doing controls for chemo vs no chemo for each stage.

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    I wonder what kind of doctor dr Michael is. I wonder if, for example, her degree is commonly referred to as a DC rather than MD…

    Edit: I was wrong! She has a PhD and is a certified sexologist. So still not particularly qualified to talk about chemo.

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    Chat I think the brainworms have finally taken their toll because I read this like 5 times before I figured out it was “Mrs. Michael” and not “Ms. Rachel.”

  • If I were feeling very very charitable I would say that there are some aggressive cancers with very poor survival rates that, heaven forbid, I were to get diagnosed with, I would consider maintaining quality of life and going straight to palliative care at the end.

    Chemo is worth it almost all of the time. But if multiple doctors told me I had a 3% survival rate I would probably prefer to save the time/money/misery and instead focus on making the best memories I could for my surviving family.

    But that isn’t what these grifters are talking about and I am not feeling charitable, so Mrs. Michael here can go against the wall.