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Originally Posted by AOII Angel
Yeah, but in medicine, we don't exactly treat patients with dangerous remedies when less dangerous methods do a good job.
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Right, but drugs that manage (rather than eliminate) infections, particularly viral infections that mutate rapidly, are incredibly problematic in their own right, aren't they?
There's no guarantee that the current treatment methods won't lead to an increase in resistant strains (and, to be fair, no guarantee that stem-cell immunity won't be subject to mutation as well) - in fact, it's fairly likely that current best practices for AIDS aren't a long-term solution to the epidemic, right?
I realize there's a balancing point and that the oath you took carries incredible weight, and that it's clearly the best way to look at it from a single-patient standpoint. However, it seems that, from an epidemiological standpoint, the stem-cell method is worth exploring as a much-preferred long-term solution.
This post had many more hyphens that I initially anticipated ... more coffee I guess?
