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Originally Posted by AOII Angel
You know I'm a physician, right?
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Let me start over--I'm fully aware of your profession and I'm not arguing with you on medical fact nor am I saying I know more than you do because I don't. Nor am I completely without intelligence, so you don't have to lecture me on informed consents--I may not be a doctor but my line of work uses them, too. I know better than to say "here are the risks but you'll die anyway so go for it." If that's how it came across, then I fully retract that. However, I responded to the blanket statement "transplants kill people" which seemed to be your only rationale for why one should use drugs instead of transplants. So, what I was trying to point out (however "crudely") is that "transplants kill people" isn't an argument against the hope of a disease's cure or for further explanation of the option because they also save people once you get them right. So if that's not what you meant then we're on the same page.
For the record, since physicians really do have more credibility on these things than others, you should know it was a physician who made the assertion that the drug cocktail is what killed that man because it was not the right combination for him. If that's not a valid or true reason based on what you know then you would be completely right--that physician made a huge mistake (or he lied).
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