I love it when Mr Quaid stated this statement. Despite being a victim and an advocate he has still a heart for nurses and for those medical staffs who commit errors. Personally I do agree with him that nurses really care and nobody wants to commit mistakes especially when life is at stake. Though lately there are many medical errors that are happening around the globe just for instance the case about the doctor who aborted a healthy baby twin not the other twin who was diagnosed with illness. He tried to commit suicide afterwards. Anyway back to Mr. Quaid, I’m thankful for people like him who dedicate their lives for the cause of avoiding further medical errors that has deadly consequences.

Thank you for sharing your story and providing the links. I agree that in dealing with complex medical problems like cancer, it is often necessary to explore a broad spectrum of options and alternatives.

SK

Don’t get me wrong – I’ve got an oncologist that I get along with fine – as an adviser, having sacked the 1st two who said I only had weeks to live and couldn’t do anything for me (this was 30 months ago). I did CAM; it failed to ‘cure’ (but then, so does conventional medicine – their mantra is that there is no cure for cancer, only delays – so no diff with CAM people there); and I then did chemo (having subsequently found that it did have a 5% chance).

Two things to bring caution about the MDs: cancer rates have increased from maybe 5% a century ago to 25% and rising. And bladder cancer specifically (mine) has not seen mortality rates fall for the last 20 years. The MDs (perhaps rightly) keep bringing out new variations of treatments before they can know the 10+ years outcomes that are needed to really know if they work (and the old ones didn’t, they now know). The MDs themselves are often critical of their colleagues too – such as only a few do chemo before RC even tho’ that gives the best outcomes; and see also the ‘orthodox medico who’s found that CAM works’ of Dr David Servan-Schreiber (check out his “Anti-Cancer: a new way of life”) http://www3.mdanderson.org/streams/MDACCFlvPlayer2.html?xml=publicEd/config /Anti-Cancer_cfg.

OK, so where do we go from here?

Yes, listen to your MDs – but treat it as the advice it is and remember that it is always your decision.

Check out alternatives – the Web makes it easy to do. Be cautious of all advice. But note that there is a lot, a mean a lot, of good evidence for CAM stuff – much written by MDs, so likely to be as well founded as the conventional stuff. The MD Anderson hospital has a whole section investigating CAM. One of their guys wrote a whole book “Natural Compounds in Cancer Therapy” by John Boik.

Much CAM is now conventional – Vit.D3, curcumin + piperene, etc.

Maybe the best anti-cancer website:
http://www.canceractive.com/Search.aspx?srch=bladder%20cancer

Tho’ I am presenting this more supportive view of CAM, I do not dismiss colleagues who are more cautious about this (or outright disagree); I know they are as sincere about that as I am. And I think they’d go along with my view that you keep control and watchfulness to yourself.

Best wishes, Ian

You’ve done a marvelous job with the documentary. I’m glad to hear that the pre-screening was a success. You’re raising awareness about a critical and timely issue.

Sean

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Thanks for following my blog. Google health uses interoperability standards that allow them to interface with different systems. I would contact them directly for more information, including their plans to launch in different languages. I believe you can already set Google to different languages.

Good luck with your new medical practice. Please send me the link to the website, if there is one.

SK

Do you know anything about plans for Google health being launched in new languages and for other countries health care systems?

Best regards
Liv Remitz
MD
Family medicine

Best,

R. Silverstein, MD, PhD