tintin
Medan,
Since I do not obsess over this forum like some people do (I read only some of it regularly, but also casually), I had never made the connection between you and Don. Should you have had a "location" under your picture, as most of us do, it might have been different. This being said, had known you lived in Boston, your one-sentence message would have been quite comprehensible.
Regarding your last statement
[quote]As Chilli stated on her post : Conventional medicine does its best to fix illnesses and surgical procedures with which it is respected. Preventative medicine is about "preventing" the illness .[/quote]
I must agree with Chilli on this one.
and, obviously, I with you both. "An ounce of prevention is worth…" I practice "preventive maintenance" on all my material possessions, and of course on myself, but again w/o obsessing, as, after all, life is a deadly disease. :roll:
tintin
Don,
You write
[quote]We accompanied a dear friend to these consults, who had been diagnosed with cancer and needed help sorting fact from fiction in regards to treatment options[/quote]
so you [u]accompanied[/u] a friend to [u]his[/u] consultation with [u]his/her[/u] oncologist, in order to provide he/she with help and moral support, fair enough. But before, you had written
[quote] 2.)The consults are fully covered by insurance, all I remit is a co-payment.[/quote]
so, you had made these consultations with the doctors under [u]your own[/u] name, in order to have the opportunity to confront them, and the fact that your cancerous friend came along was secondary. In fact, you made these appointments in order to tell these doctors they were "full of it," and, at the same time, demonstrate to your friend what a "superior and wiser" person you are. You really have too much free time on your hands, a little bit like me wasting my time with such a person as you.
So what is it? Whatever your real story is, you have demonstrated that you are either a compulsive liar, or have a serious anger-management problem (as also demonstrated by your ravings on this forum). Either way, I would say you are in urgent psychiatric help at the McLean Psychiatric Hospital.
chilli
[quote=tintin]Don,
so, you had made these consultations with the doctors under [u]your own[/u] name, in order to have the opportunity to confront them, and the fact that your cancerous friend came along was secondary. In fact, you made these appointments in order to tell these doctors they were "full of it," and, at the same time, demonstrate to your friend what a "superior and wiser" person you are. You really have too much free time on your hands, a little bit like me wasting my time with such a person as you.
.[/quote]
Tin Tin, there is no such thing as too much free time when a person is doing their best to help a friend who faces such a life threatening disease.
People who "dont" think take everything a doctor/specialist says as gospel, a "thinking" person would question and seek out advise on many levels from different modalities of healing when it comes to saving their life. It is each persons right to chose how to tackle their illness.
One only has to open up a fine print extended pamphlet out of any medication prescribed to read a long list of contraindictations and possible complications and side effects.
Doctors and specialists CAN and DO sometimes make terrible mistakes.
tintin
Chilli,
You missed my point totally. Dr. Partrige was NOT his friend's doctor, and the other doctors that Don visited (with or without his sick friend) were not either. Don made an appointment with Dr. Partrige in his own name. According to Don himself, he paid for the consultation with Dr. Partridge, and for the several consultations with other doctors, just for the "pleasure"of arguing with these doctors and tell them how full of s#@t they all are. It had nothing to do with supporting his friend through a bad time. So, since Don knew the gut reaction of these "bad" doctors, why did he do it? Like I say, he had too much time on his hands to waste.
What was Don trying to achieve? Change the doctors opinions? Of course not. And he already had made up his mind that the predominant remedies provided by these doctors were poisons to their patients, and that all doctors are dishonest, only interested in making money and killing their patients. Don't take my word for it, just re-read Don's posts.
Medan
Froggy, I know I shouldn't do that but it's become a habit, I drive one hour to work everyday so I spend quite alot of time on the road everyday, but I do try to text on the red right and during traffic jams.
Again I couldn't agree more with Chilli.
Tin Tin Said: [i]"You really have too much free time on your hands, a little bit like me wasting my[/i] [i]time with such a person as you."[/i]
This is very terrible to say, time is never wasted on a person, especially when they're a close friend but that's just my thought.
Liz :)
chilli
Hi Tin Tin,
I can't make an assumption on Don and what he was doing with the specialists, wasting time or not, I dont know Don and I was not there.
But oftentimes a person is looking for confirmation, searching for answers etc.
I for one, beleive that i have the right to make an appointment to question a Doctor on whatever health concern or medical querry I may have. After all the only way we can speak with them is to make an appointment, No ?
I dont know how the medical/insurance/government system works in U.S.A.
In Australia we pay part of the consult and medicare pays some (minimal) and then private insurance pays some (The private insurance for which we pay for).
From my personal experience, and i have had both parents and a young sister and numerous friends with cancer.
I have the right to question ! That is why we pay private and government taxed insurance for.
You may be able to pick up the phone and ask questions to former collegues or friends in the field, but the average person has no other way than to MAKE AN APPOINTMENT.
p.s. Now a conversation of Newton versus Einstein, would be . 8) cool. :)
Sumatra
Sorry Tintin,
If you indeed had worked in collaboration with MGH and Dana Farber on heart imaging studies performed during the time period you'd specified and you did in fact have a Ph.D. in nuclear physics, you'd know that technetium-99m sestamibi is superior to thallium-201 for heart imaging studies, especially when used in conjunction with today's modern gamma cameras.
In fact, the question I asked of you was quite simple and could have been answered correctly by a first year med student, no need to consult the wife of your former boss on this one, you ridiculously old fraud.
Next, you'll probably attempt to convince me that you're a direct descendant of Louis IV d'Outremer this time however, you've been thrown by your horse but please do get back in the saddle (unlike Louis IV) and continue to dazzle me with your fantastical tales!!!!
:lol: :twisted: :lol: :twisted:
Don :roll:
tintin
After an afternoon at the Harvard Sanders Theater, listening to the genius Venezuelan pianist, Gabriela Montero playing the Rach 3, how could I be in a better mood? So let's clean the plate.
Some prophet must have said, at some time or another, "They will hear and not comprehend, they will see and not understand", or something similar. So
Medan and Chilli,
I have NEVER said that spending time with a friend, and certainly spending time helping a friend (or another human being) in distress is a waste of time. On the contrary, it's one of the few things which make life meaningful. However, what I was saying is that Don had too much time on his hands to spend his time meeting with doctors to argue with them and tell them they are full of s**t, since he knew in the first place of the futility of such endeavor. Although English is my third language, I don't think I can make myself clearer. :lol:
Don,
In 1998, for your info, Tc 91m had already been used as a radioactive marker since at least 1970. The reason I did not consider it in my imaging system was because of the energy, 140 keV, where my system was no longer sensitive. My system had a good efficiency at the 80 keV of Tl201, and gave a much better resolution than the Anger Cameras which were, and still are used, in dynamic heart imaging. :evil:
Pleasant dreams, Don. :lol: :lol:
