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Date Posted: 18:41:09 02/22/06 Wed
Author: 23
Subject: Re: Stilly - re your medicine and big business..
In reply to: amadaun 's message, "Stilly - re your medicine and big business thread" on 17:41:37 02/22/06 Wed

And in reference to the subject at hand, I think one's experiences with western medicine often color one's perceptions of it.

Positive experiences = satisfied with western medicine.

Negative experiences = think western medicine is bad.

It has its flaws, yes (monetary influence being one of the big ones), but I refuse to discount its effectiveness entirely when I know multiple people who owe their lives to it (myself included).

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[> Iatrogenic deaths -- amadaun, 18:13:52 02/23/06 Thu [1]

Twan, regarding the your perception of alternative therapies vs orthodox- I think the figures say it all.
This from Mercola.com-

"One year later, in 1995, a report in JAMA said that, "Over a million patients are injured in U.S. hospitals each year, and approximately 280,000 die annually as a result of these injuries. Therefore, the iatrogenic death rate dwarfs the annual automobile accident mortality rate of 45,000 and accounts for more deaths than all other accidents combined." http://www.mercola.com/2003/nov/26/death_by_medicine.htm

I have always said that I am glad that your experience with orthodox medicine had a good outcome, but many other people are not so lucky.

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