AW: The Informed Patient: The Battle Against Superbugs Needs SomeRecruits: Patients

["Franz Schoenhofer" <franz.schoenhofer@CHELLO.AT>]

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Von: owner-radsafe@list.vanderbilt.edu

[mailto:owner-radsafe@list.vanderbilt.edu]Im Auftrag von Ted Rockwell

Gesendet: Sonntag, 29. September 2002 21:15

An: RADSAFE; John Simpson

Betreff: RE: The Informed Patient: The Battle Against Superbugs Needs

SomeRecruits: Patients





Until the discovery of sulpha, penicillin and the "wonder drugs," low-dose,

full-body (or partial-body) x-rays were used to treat low-grade infections.

Particularly in the kind of cases now leading to amputation, it was about

90% successful, with few amputations, in contrast to current treatment that

now often leads to amputation ("to be sure we got it all"), and death in a

high percentage of the cases.  They knew, nearly a century ago, that the

x-rays were not powerful enough to kill the infection, and assumed

(correctly) that they were stimulating the immune system.



I recently talked with two friends who had legs amputated, because in the

current radiophobic climate, few doctors would resort to this well-proven

technique.  It is NOT conservative to always assume that tiny amounts of

radiation are harmful.  "When all else fails, consult the data."



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The result of two friends are statistically relevant?????



Franz





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