Comments on: Cancer http://healthblog.ncpa.org/cancer/ Health Care Policy and Reform Insights | NCPA Mon, 21 May 2012 15:56:21 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: Michael Moore http://healthblog.ncpa.org/cancer/comment-page-1/#comment-83937 Michael Moore Sun, 19 Dec 2010 13:13:50 +0000 http://www.john-goodman-blog.com/?p=11145#comment-83937 I see the rightwing-nuts are everywhere with their "Obama did it Bullshit" You freaks must be tools of the scumbag insurance bastards that are pissed that the Gov.t is taking away their power to deny healthcare to the poor and make UNHOLY PROFITS from the misery and suffering of the sick! Well, why don't you cowards take your patron saint's advice and exercise your second amendment rights cause I would damn sure enjoy an excuse to exercise mine! And having spent a year in VietNam with the 101st I'm sure I'll be pissing on your rotten corpses! Death to all republiscums! Obama is a failure but I believe a Mr. Grayson from Fla. is just the ticket to rollback all of the rightwing filth that is destroying America!Bring it on cowards! I see the rightwing-nuts are everywhere with their “Obama did it Bullshit” You freaks must be tools of the scumbag insurance bastards that are pissed that the Gov.t is taking away their power to deny healthcare to the poor and make UNHOLY PROFITS from the misery and suffering of the sick! Well, why don’t you cowards take your patron saint’s advice and exercise your second amendment rights cause I would damn sure enjoy an excuse to exercise mine! And having spent a year in VietNam with the 101st I’m sure I’ll be pissing on your rotten corpses! Death to all republiscums! Obama is a failure but I believe a Mr. Grayson from Fla. is just the ticket to rollback all of the rightwing filth that is destroying America!Bring it on cowards!

]]> By: Delcie Plankey http://healthblog.ncpa.org/cancer/comment-page-1/#comment-78307 Delcie Plankey Sun, 26 Sep 2010 07:41:53 +0000 http://www.john-goodman-blog.com/?p=11145#comment-78307 I am fascinated with the idea of the liberation treatment to cure MS. From what information I can accumulate about places that offer treatment, I can only find one vague list duplicated on a dozen websites. Is there a better way to find treatment, per say in North America. There are places that offer Liberation Treatment for the United States that no one knows about, such as <a href="http://www.liberation-treatment-now.com" rel="nofollow">Liberation Treatment Now</a> I am fascinated with the idea of the liberation treatment to cure MS. From what information I can accumulate about places that offer treatment, I can only find one vague list duplicated on a dozen websites. Is there a better way to find treatment, per say in North America. There are places that offer Liberation Treatment for the United States that no one knows about, such as Liberation Treatment Now

]]> By: Sara S reynolds MD http://healthblog.ncpa.org/cancer/comment-page-1/#comment-67167 Sara S reynolds MD Thu, 17 Jun 2010 16:29:32 +0000 http://www.john-goodman-blog.com/?p=11145#comment-67167 How can I get out of this? I've finished my comments for now How can I get out of this? I’ve finished my comments for now

]]> By: Sara Reynolds MD http://healthblog.ncpa.org/cancer/comment-page-1/#comment-67164 Sara Reynolds MD Thu, 17 Jun 2010 16:26:13 +0000 http://www.john-goodman-blog.com/?p=11145#comment-67164 I didn't really voice my anger at the control "Big Pharma" has over my colleagues. Sara Reynolds MD I didn’t really voice my anger at the control “Big Pharma” has over my colleagues.

Sara Reynolds MD

]]> By: Sara Reynolds MD http://healthblog.ncpa.org/cancer/comment-page-1/#comment-67162 Sara Reynolds MD Thu, 17 Jun 2010 16:19:12 +0000 http://www.john-goodman-blog.com/?p=11145#comment-67162 I graduated from med school (MD) in 1953. Physicians have accepted being employees with that mentality--not as providers responsibile to their patients. Because the insurance co will pay for a procedure--Xray, lab etc, it is ordered without any mental input as to the necessity. Interestingly, many electro shock treatmtnts are ordered for the elderly--because medicare will pay for it! Please tell me how a "shock" could do anything but damage an already compromised brain! I was first licensed to practice in PA in 1954 and am currently licensed to practice in AZ (since 1965) I've been a country MD with big black bag, babies etc (first woman MD seen by my patients); I've been in regular office practice and in HMOs; I've worked in county health dept clinics, in alcohol, drug and mental health programs. We must quit being lead like sheep by the drug company lies and realise that nutrition, lifestyle changes and alternative medicine approaches are preventative and VERY cost effective. Of course, the provider would have to do some research, complete physical exams, extensive histories and, most of all, be really interested in his/her patients. Sara Reynolds MD AZ license #4413 I graduated from med school (MD) in 1953. Physicians have accepted being employees with that mentality–not as providers responsibile to their patients. Because the insurance co will pay for a procedure–Xray, lab etc, it is ordered without any mental input as to the necessity. Interestingly, many electro shock treatmtnts are ordered for the elderly–because medicare will pay for it! Please tell me how a “shock” could do anything but damage an already compromised brain!

I was first licensed to practice in PA in 1954 and am currently licensed to practice in AZ (since 1965)
I’ve been a country MD with big black bag, babies etc
(first woman MD seen by my patients); I’ve been in regular office practice and in HMOs; I’ve worked in county health dept clinics, in alcohol, drug and mental health programs.

We must quit being lead like sheep by the drug company lies and realise that nutrition, lifestyle changes and alternative medicine approaches are preventative and VERY cost effective. Of course, the provider would have to do some research, complete physical exams, extensive histories and, most of all, be really interested in his/her patients.

Sara Reynolds MD AZ license #4413

]]> By: DoctorSH http://healthblog.ncpa.org/cancer/comment-page-1/#comment-67115 DoctorSH Thu, 17 Jun 2010 01:39:48 +0000 http://www.john-goodman-blog.com/?p=11145#comment-67115 A few points. 1. The paradigm on cancer treatment is changing. Yesterdays cure may be today's poison, but we did the best with what we had at the time. 2. I do not know many oncologists that make money from chemo meds. Maybe from the office visits and procedures, but no longer from the chemo. 3. Any organization that gets in bed with the federal govt, gets screwed, as well as corrupted. Just look at the AMA. A few points.
1. The paradigm on cancer treatment is changing. Yesterdays cure may be today’s poison, but we did the best with what we had at the time.
2. I do not know many oncologists that make money from chemo meds. Maybe from the office visits and procedures, but no longer from the chemo.
3. Any organization that gets in bed with the federal govt, gets screwed, as well as corrupted. Just look at the AMA.

]]> By: Howard Long http://healthblog.ncpa.org/cancer/comment-page-1/#comment-66928 Howard Long Tue, 15 Jun 2010 03:26:29 +0000 http://www.john-goodman-blog.com/?p=11145#comment-66928 Yes, Ionizing radiation of 10 rad (hormetic dose) (usual background just 0.4 rad, rem, c Sv )as presented 6/13/2010 by Howard Maccabee PhD MD and Hyperbaric O2 as presented by Dr Maxfield, also at this meeting of Doctors for Disaster Preparedness have both shown impressive, repeatable cancer prevention and cure. Howard Long MD MPH Pleasanton CA Yes,
Ionizing radiation of 10 rad (hormetic dose)
(usual background just 0.4 rad, rem, c Sv )as presented 6/13/2010 by Howard Maccabee PhD MD and

Hyperbaric O2 as presented by Dr Maxfield, also at this meeting of Doctors for Disaster Preparedness have both shown impressive, repeatable cancer prevention and cure.

Howard Long MD MPH Pleasanton CA

]]> By: John Goodman http://healthblog.ncpa.org/cancer/comment-page-1/#comment-66899 John Goodman Mon, 14 Jun 2010 22:13:06 +0000 http://www.john-goodman-blog.com/?p=11145#comment-66899 Good point, Dr. Brooks. But the game is not zero sum. If we cure cancer, yes, we will surely die of something else. But in the meantime we will have significantly more years of quality life. That means there is a positive payoff from medical R & D. Good point, Dr. Brooks. But the game is not zero sum. If we cure cancer, yes, we will surely die of something else. But in the meantime we will have significantly more years of quality life. That means there is a positive payoff from medical R & D.

]]> By: Barry Brooks http://healthblog.ncpa.org/cancer/comment-page-1/#comment-66894 Barry Brooks Mon, 14 Jun 2010 21:39:45 +0000 http://www.john-goodman-blog.com/?p=11145#comment-66894 John, as you know, I am an oncologist and I have a different take on one of your points. Heart disease is the leading cause of death in the US, but what I call the "law of Adam" has not been suspended. Said another way, everyone still dies. If scientific advances and life style changes suddenly decrease the number of deaths from the number one cause of death in this zero sum game of life then perforce deaths from the number two cause will rise. For example, men no longer routinely die of heart disease in their 50s so they now live to die of prostate cancer in their 80s. John, as you know, I am an oncologist and I have a different take on one of your points. Heart disease is the leading cause of death in the US, but what I call the “law of Adam” has not been suspended. Said another way, everyone still dies. If scientific advances and life style changes suddenly decrease the number of deaths from the number one cause of death in this zero sum game of life then perforce deaths from the number two cause will rise. For example, men no longer routinely die of heart disease in their 50s so they now live to die of prostate cancer in their 80s.

]]> By: Devon Herrick http://healthblog.ncpa.org/cancer/comment-page-1/#comment-66892 Devon Herrick Mon, 14 Jun 2010 20:17:32 +0000 http://www.john-goodman-blog.com/?p=11145#comment-66892 Childhood cancer used to be a death sentence. Now the odds of surviving (depending on the type) are nearly 85%. The drugs used to treat childhood leukemia have not changed much in the past 30 years or so. Increased survival is mostly due to better knowledge of how the drugs should be administered. Childhood cancer used to be a death sentence. Now the odds of surviving (depending on the type) are nearly 85%. The drugs used to treat childhood leukemia have not changed much in the past 30 years or so. Increased survival is mostly due to better knowledge of how the drugs should be administered.

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