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RE: The Informed Patient: The Battle Against Superbugs Needs Some Recruits: Patients
If it has been so effective, why are antibiotics so commonly used? Are
antibiotics more effective? Cheaper? Convenient? Gee, 2000 papers in 100
years. I would imaging that there are 2000 papers on antibiotics in a year.
Of course, it is probably a conspiracy of the pharmaceutical companies and
the medical establish to suppress the use of ionizing radiation. In
medicine, you try to do the best for your patient, not what is politically
correct. It is difficult to say why certain treatments do not work on all
patients, as in the case of Ted's friends, but charging that radiation would
boost the immune system to cure their condition is very imaginative.
-- John
John Jacobus, MS
Certified Health Physicist
3050 Traymore Lane
Bowie, MD 20715-2024
E-mail: jenday1@email.msn.com (H)
-----Original Message-----
From: Muckerheide [mailto:muckerheide@attbi.com]
Sent: Wednesday, October 02, 2002 9:18 PM
To: Jacobus, John (NIH/OD/ORS); radsafe@list.vanderbilt.edu
Subject: Re: The Informed Patient: The Battle Against Superbugs Needs
Some Recruits: Patients
John,
on 10/2/02 6:00 PM, Jacobus, John (NIH/OD/ORS) at jacobusj@ors.od.nih.gov
wrote:
> Ted,
> What data are you referring to? I hope you are not referring to the
single
> reference the Jim Muckerheide posted in January 2002 on radiation to
> treating gas gangrene, and I commented on. See
No. It's the 2,000 other papers 1896-1996 on treating infections that you
haven't read either! :-) Your "comments" didn't address even that one
paper. See e.g., Berk and Hodes 1991, Medline for ref. (BTW, hyperbaric
therapy generally isn't very successful, just costly/profitable. 25%
mortality for gas gangrene, vs. 5% for irradiation, too cheap for FDA.)
. . .
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