SteveZan
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13 years ago @ Macleans.ca - Not available in Canada · 0 replies · +7 points
Anne, you wrote a wonderful piece regarding the plight of MS patients. My wife Michele and I needed to circumvent the process as well and traveled to India for the treatment and like many others following this story the results have been improved health. Unfortunately after a recent visit to our neurologist, I am even more resigned to the fact that doctors are more concerned with their domain versus the welfare of the patient they claim to serve. His defense and negativity did more to unnerve my wife than the treatment she experienced. Not even a single comment as to how she was doing after the treatment - sadly I was not present to remind him of the PERSON that sat in front of him that day. Maybe a revisit of the Hippocratic oath is in order, Here are two from the Modern day oath that all neurologists would be reminded of....
I will apply, for the benefit of the sick, all measures [that] are required, avoiding those twin traps of overtreatment and therapeutic nihilism.
I will remember that there is art to medicine as well as science, and that warmth, sympathy, and understanding may outweigh the surgeon's knife or the chemist's drug
Discouraged by their position but determined to do whatever it takes to improve the health of my wife
I will apply, for the benefit of the sick, all measures [that] are required, avoiding those twin traps of overtreatment and therapeutic nihilism.
I will remember that there is art to medicine as well as science, and that warmth, sympathy, and understanding may outweigh the surgeon's knife or the chemist's drug
Discouraged by their position but determined to do whatever it takes to improve the health of my wife