raincoaster

Raw vegan healer/extremists like my friend have no objection to looking at the body. They just tend to babble about "alkalinity" whenever faced with problems, and recommend consuming nothing but spinach smoothies. Coffee, for instance, is basic (you can do a litmus test) but they insist it's "acidic". I think all the spinach prevents the oxygen from reaching their brain sometimes.
Here's my post on it: apparently, raw vegans find this hilarious!
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raincoaster

Oh No I Di'n't.

Oh No I Di'n't.

Also: next time they want to give me a gallium scan, you can have it instead.

raincoaster

The scans are basically harmless (unless you get one every day), so there is no medical reason to say no if there is a machine sitting idle and someone requests it. Occasionally, like perhaps in the case of Jobs, they catch something before it is symptomatic. Early, accurate diagnosis is part of the reason for the atypically high disease survival rates in the US.

Vulture

bbucy

googleguy415

raincoaster

There are so many of these machines per capita in the US that it has driven the elective cost way down and there is little rationing of machine time. Kind of like laser eye surgery; access is sufficiently unregulated that a very competitive market has rapidly brought down prices and increased result quality.

Vulture

raincoaster

Not to say there aren't complementary therapies, but if the point is to live rather than to adhere to a doctrine, then you've really got to look at the numbers.

raincoaster

Vulture

bbucy

The non-medically treated survival rate across all cancers is <1%, while the medically treated survival rate in the US for males across all cancers is rapidly approaching 70% (this rate averages ~50% in the rest of the industrialized world -- the US significantly outperforms the rest of the world in this regard). Anyone that doubts the efficacy of modern medical treatments for cancer, particularly compared to New Age hokum, is demonstrating a serious lack of judgement regardless of their beliefs. The board was correct to be skeptical.

Vulture

MattPol

franky

Lawrence