Unethical Use of Chemotherapy

[mellowsong]

By Jenny Thompson on 07/19/2011

I'd like to think they're just selling false hope because they can't face telling it like it is.

Imagine having to look into the eyes of elderly cancer patients day after day and tell them there's nothing you can do.

So maybe...just maybe...oncologists are offering treatments they know are ineffective to give some hope and to make their jobs one drop easier. It might be wrong but at least I could understand it.

But sadly, that's probably not the reason that these poor, desperate patients are being subjected to needless -- and worthless -- chemo treatments.

No, it's much more likely that it's all about the billing...and it's a national disgrace.

Read more: http://www.healthiertalk.com/monster-closet-4322

[TonyG]

I think Jerry Brunetti would agree : http://www.nuganics.com.au/2007/07/06/jerry-brunetti-food-as-medicine/ Please watch this 2 part video as cancer survivor Jerry Brunetti tears down the great wall of chemotherapy !:cool:

[Islander]

Fancy you finding that video. For a while it was almost impossible to locate anywhere on the 'Net. I have it here, on a sticky at the top of the Cancer forum and have downloaded it to my own computer as well, so it will never be lost again. Same thing with Rima Laibow's explanation of Codex Alimentarius.

[LabDoc]

Mellow, from your article by Jenny Thompson,

I'd like to think they're just selling false hope because they can't face telling it like it is.

"Imagine having to look into the eyes of elderly cancer patients day after day and tell them there's nothing you can do.

So maybe...just maybe...oncologists are offering treatments they know are ineffective to give some hope and to make their jobs one drop easier. It might be wrong but at least I could understand it."

I would have to agree with the quotation above, a school friend on mine who has now for many years been a Medical Oncologist, uses this philosophy himself. When we were younger and keener, we were going to save the world, he in treatment and me in diagnostics, needless to say that didn't happen. I would hate to be an Oncologist but HOPE is not a four letter word to them.