Apendix Bursted on friday & now im off work for??

[Mikecutstrees]

There is not any more money to be made by treating a disease poorly than there is in treating well, or curing. On the other hand, many medical treatments are sold just because that is all that they know, or that is what they have heavily invested equipment and training on. Word gets around eventually, though.

There is a cancer treatment hospital somewhere down in Oklahoma that my father-in-law travels to from KC. Why? Good results, the most modern techniques. The local medico's kinda carved him up in the old-school way when they were working on his prostate.

As cancer treatments improve to become cures, people flock to the centers that provide the best, sometimes the only cure. Then they live longer...and need treatment again someday for something else.

There are as many types of cancers as there are cell types in your body. There will never be a shortage of cancers to treat, and there will certainly never be "a cure for cancer". "World peace" is more likely than a single cure for all the different forms of cancer.

Ooops. A bit off topic, eh?

Let me ask this.... How much money does the heath care industry make treating polio nowadays?

 

[pdqdl]

Let me ask this.... How much money does the heath care industry make treating polio nowadays?

Way more than they used to, given that all those vaccination injections are done profitably at quite a bit of inflation over the '50s. Besides, nobody could afford to have all those RN's taking care of whole wards of people stuck in iron lungs in these times of high paid nurses. 60 years ago, nurses didn't get paid nearly as much, relative to other jobs.

Curiously enough, the success of polio vaccinations was achieved as a result of cancer research. An excellent article that explains the history of the Salk vaccine development: http://www.healthheritageresearch.com/salk.htm
Curiously, it also highlights some critical difference between how public and private health concerns are handled by Canada & the U.S. Good reading for the history buff.


Doesn't your argument support my position? Once upon a time, polio was a plague that kept large parts of the population handicapped. Medicine worked up an effective prevention, and the disease is now found only rarely in the US. Conversely, there are no signs whatsoever that the health care industry is running out of problems to cure.

It is a common misconception that the medico's are only in it for the money, and that they wouldn't employ a "cure" for cancer if they had it. Nonsense! If they had a cure, whoever came up with it would be world famous, fabulously wealthy, and probably get a Nobel Prize as well. Don't think that every cancer researcher has not considered the glory to be had if they can find a cure. So...if a cure existed, it would not be hidden from the world, it would be trumpeted about far and wide.

Now let's talk about smallpox...No money in that at all, and it was wiped off the face of the planet.

 

[lego1970]

I had to have mine removed in 06 but got to the hopital before it busted. I was driving semi's at the time and was on my way to New Jersey from Missouri but stopped in Indiana to have it removed. This was my guideline.

Monday: 8am had surgery.

Wednesday Morning: got back in the truck and finished driving to New Jersey.
It was a little hard getting in and out of the semi and towards the end of the drive I was feeling every expansion joint in the pavement. Trip back to Missouri felt a little better.

Sunday Morning: I rode my sportbike from Kansas City to Topeka to do a trackday. The intensity of riding on the track overpowered any pain, however the next day I was sore again.

The next week (about 14 days later): I was able to slowly jog again, but heavy lifting was still hard.

By about the fourth week: I was able to lift heavy objects.

3.5 years later: Everything is fine, however after a long day doing tree work, that side of the stomach near the scar will have muscle cramps while tryinng to take the boots off.

Good luck, and try to take it easy for the next few weeks.

 

[isaaccarlson]

Cancer is just a moneymaker. The food growers (monsanto and others) genetically modify plants and are unable to get the DNA back together in the same exact order. Then they spray the plants with roundup and other chemicals which get absorbed by the plant. Then they turn the plant into food and we eat it and the chemicals that it was sprayed with. As if ingesting toxic chemicals was not enough, we are also eating screwed up genetic material. That screwed up genetic material can make ours go nuts (cancer). There are other causes of cancer too but this is a big one. The thing thats makes me mad is that they do not label these foods as GM(genetically modified). The FDA is supposed to make sure the food they grow is safe but the FDA is run by Monsanto!!!! They have this funny thing called SUBSTANTIAL EQUIVALENCE.......Sorry for hijacking....

 

[isaaccarlson]

The medical field is not that interested in making people better, they just want to make you FEEL better. If they made everyone better they would have no more money coming in.