I’ve heard the quote: no one will know the research like a mum protecting her child.
So what of the couple in WA who recently had their child taken from them to have chemotherapy? The doctors knew that the child was unlikely to survive the chemo, or at best left permanently injured. They took the parents to court and forced the child to have the chemo.
So was chemo the best option? The Hippocratic oath says “first do no harm” and it is certainly not the only option. The parents were happy to explore other avenues. They were planning to go overseas to seek other treatments. That’s when their passports were taken and they were put under house arrest…for trying to seek treatment for this child who probably wouldn’t survive chemo….their child…
Chemo is known to be largely ineffective actually. Known in the medical profession. It blows my mind that we trustingly subscribe to these “experts” who either don’t seem to know the facts about what they are prescribing, or do know and don’t think “informed consent” includes telling people any real info..”trust me, I’m the Dr…”
Look, I’m not against medicine, but if there are extreme side effects I’d like a choice thanks. It seems at some point medicine has gone from helping people to helping people find the right drug. Doctors learn a very narrow set of information about prescribing medicine and everything else is just quackery and considered dangerous at best.
Let’s look at another example – statins – prescribed like candy to the ageing population. Did you know there is this secret number in medicine that tells you the number of people you need to treat with a drug to help one person. That secret number the doctor will never tell you is 300 for statins…meaning give 300 people statins and you might help one of those avoid a stroke. So when a Dr is getting “informed consent” from their patients, do you think they say “299 out of 300 people will get many of the dangerous side effects from statins with absolutely no benefit”?? No? They never had that conversation with you?? No, pretty sure they didn’t tell my dad either. The side effects of statins are extensive and serious.
Including but not limited to:
sexual dysfunction
memory loss
cataracts
Immune depression
anemia
…and so it goes…
I’m not sure that most doctors are even aware of how low the efficacy of this treatment is – so maybe we shouldn’t judge them harshly for just doing what they are trained to do. They are taught that when someone has high cholesterol the best drug treatment is statins. Of course if you’re taught that and you think that these drugs save lives you think you’re pretty awesome and doing a great job, why question it. The bit that concerns me isn’t that doctors don’t know, it’s that we are expected to blindly trust what the doctors say, when they don’t know…
Here’s another interesting one: pancreatic surgery. The magic number is 49. You need to do 49 surgeries to help ONE person. I don’t know about you, but surgery is a pretty major event in my book – I’m not sure helping one person in 49 is really good enough odds for me. Perhaps it is for you, perhaps it would be if there were no other options, but you need to be GIVEN the information so you can make an INFORMED decision.
The problem with the chemo example is that the parents WERE informed, they knew chemo wasn’t the best or safest option, they knew that chemo was about 2% effective at best and they thought they would rather explore other options. The courts said “No. Don’t care if you’re the parents, don’t care if your child becomes permanently injured, Dr knows best so just do it.” Is this Ok for you? It honestly scares the hell out of me!
So what else could the parents do, if we didn’t suddenly live in a dictatorial society?
It is universally known that cannibis oil has very powerful anti-cancer properties. Lucky for the drug companies, cannibis sounds like a really bad drug so it’s illegal.
Frankincense essential oil also has extensive research demonstrating clear anti-tumourigenic properties…
An alkalising diet and clean eating are known to be 4x more effective than any drug treatment on the market…
This is by no means an extensively researched list, my post was more questioning the blind trust we place in the medical system which is funded and trained by big pharmaceutical companies. I’m not a conspiracy theorist, this is just simple fact (you can look up sponsors of medical schools etc). The fact that drugs are sold to us as the answer, the ONLY answer and the ONLY option for a responsible parent to take for their child, even if it kills him.
THAT needs some serious reflection…surely.