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Originally Posted by christiangirl
^^Pretty much.
I clearly just said that these are words the doctor spoke--I did not interpret, I repeated. Just because physicians should not speak to certain contexts does not mean they do not and this one apparently did. If something was mispoken, it does not automatically get attributed to me just because I am not a doctor. 
I hear your point very clearly and as I said before--if you were not intending to make a blanket statement that all "transplants kill people" (and you say you weren't) then we are on the same page.
What the heck, DS? Just....just.....this is not Dawn of the Dead. |
You just added a very important word to the sentence that I did not. I also suspect if you are repeating your physician's statement word for word that he was trying to use layman's terms for you. Some people do a very poor job of converting medical jargon into layman's terms. Also, there is a very well known phenomenon in medicine where people hear what a physician said then when repeating it change it significantly...kinda like that game of telephone. Anyway, I'm tired of this argument about nothing. You jumped into the middle of a conversation without considering the backstory. Accept that we agree that we need a cure but this is probably not it.
BTW, DDD lady, I asked my friend about the resistance to HIV seen in some people. He said that most of our T-cells have two receptors that HIV uses to enter the cell. The first receptor is used to initially enter the cell, but in the vast majority of patients, after initial infection, the virus changes and begins entering the cell only through the second receptor. Some lucky patients only have the first receptor in their T-cells. Once the virus changes the virus cannot reinfect more cells and is unable to reproduce. The virus will be eradicated. The patient in the study was transplanted with cells that only had the first receptor so his HIV viruses had no way of entering his new cells, thus dying off. I think the thought is that HIV would not be able to mutate to enter the new cells through the other receptor because there is no place for them to go to replicate after the transplant. BTW, he agreed that this was a lucky single case finding for the patient with little practical application for his patients in the future. (unless, of course, one of them has leukemia and needs a BM transplant
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