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Anti-Cancer Agent Stops Metastasis In Its Tracks
Anomalyst writes "Mice were implanted with cancer. The control group died as tumors metastasized. The experimental group was treated with macroketone and survived a normal lifespan. While the cancer was not cured, metastasis was significantly (over 80%) inhibited. Even after metastasis had begun and additional cancers developed, macroketone inhibited subsequent metastasis. The original article is in Nature behind a paywall."
Since when is your life not yours, but the government's?
The medical aspect of your life is the property of whoever is paying for medicine. Since the government is paying for it, the government became the customer. The doctor's job is not to keep you happy, or even healthy, the doctor's job is to keep the government happy.
The worst of it is that, over time, this becomes a reason for prohibition-like policies.
There are 2 ways to do that : ... patients do not get the choice of doctor (that's more expensive you see), and doctors are very sure of their jobs indeed
1) avoid any and all risks, and if one screws up, deny everything. After all, if the patient sues, the government employs the defendant, the lawyer, and all possible witnesses (because only doctors get to testify) (and more-or-less the judge. Furthermore judges are more wary of convicting municipalities than convicting individuals, I don't claim this is because of payment, likely just that they're bigger with better lawyers). Only in the case of truly criminal behavior does a doctor run the risk of a conviction. Incompetence doesn't matter because
2) avoid any and all costs (e.g. they try to get nurses to send someone with a broken leg home with a pain-relief cream first. Only after the patient comes back do they take an x-ray. The worst of it is they claim this "is better for the environment")
Or at least, that's how it's been for decades in Europe. I hope America will be different, but I doubt it. Every year more savings are necessary. Even in the best years of the past century, like 2000-2001, medicine still had to shrink down.
You should be able to take a risk on experimental treatment. You should be able to end your own life if it becomes too much.
Not to nitpick, but euthanasia is asking others to end your life. Everybody who knows a bit of basic medicine knows 10 different ways to end his or her life.