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Old 26-05-2009, 21:29   #10
MargaretR
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Re: the film 1984 George Orwell

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Originally Posted by Less View Post
Just as bull**** in it's many forms on the web does not make something true, so please feel free to believe what you want, but when the rest of us and our families need real medical help, we don't pretend a few bones thrown by a Witchdoctor will cure us, we go to proper Doctors, (when and if available).
A century ago a doc would have drained you using leeches, and prescribed arsenic.
I suspect that in another century we will look back at our docs with the same ridicule.
There are few 'proper doctors' left - it is no longer a vocation - it is a lucrative occupation.

They look at the symptom you describe to them and prescribe a drug to overcome that symptom. If it effects a 'cure' it is incidental and your luck is in.

The 'cure' can sometimes cause yet another 'symptom', and so it goes on until there are some people taking handfuls of drugs every day just to maintain the appearance of living = sad isn't it.
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