Re: When Doctors go on Strike Mortality DECREASES! -- Article

That is why I said in the latter part of my message "on a serious note", since obviously the first part was said tongue in cheek. And I grant you that long hours and stress have a lot to do with the mortality of doctors.

Having said that, unless I have a broken part of physical trauma, there is very little that I would go to a mainstream doctor for. I have not done so for over 20 years and would only do so as a very last resort.

As to the second part of my statement, I did not say that the survival rate for ALL cancers was greater, just for all cancers combined.. Certainly it is a matter of record that those who opt to not have treatment for cancer's survival rate increases after two years and those who did have treatment decreases after two years.

But why nitpick over just one single condition - what about the premise of the original post - when doctors go on strike OVERALL mortality decreases! Since that would have to include physical trauma that doctors do well at, what does that say about how well they do in treating illness and disease (including cancer)?

DQ

“Doctors are men who prescribe medicines of which they know little, to cure diseases of which they know less, in human beings of whom they know nothing.”
- Voltaire

“Nearly all men die of their medicines, not of their diseases.”
- Moliere

“Most diseases are the result of medication that has been applied to relieve and take away a beneficient and warning symptom on the part of Nature."
- Elbert Hubbard

"One of the first duties of the physician is to educate the masses not to take medicine."
- William Osler

"The doctor of the future will give no medicine but will interest his patients in the care of the human frame, in diet and in the cause and prevention of disease."
- Thomas Edison

“I have endeavored to show that there is no real service of humanity in the profession [of medicine] and that it is injurious to mankind.”
- Mahatma Gandhi
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