The logic of that statement overwhelms my simple mind. Doctors are crooked.. Doctors blame unnecessary tests on lawyers Doctors are getting a kickback on those tests they can't interpret correctly that are unecessary. damn we are all F***ed. Don't go to a doctor, go to a pharmacist! they won't screw u and they will happily prescribe you anything because they have a huge conflict of interest - they make money of that prescription!!!
Looking over the posts on this thread I would think that unless you have full guaranteed payout insurance you would be crazy to have an operation in the USA. Comparing what Scataphagos paid for an identical operation to myself there is a $87, 640 difference. What about getting a flight to Hong Kong for a few thousand bucks , get operated on in a 5star hospital, recover in a 5star hotel and still save a fortune? Enough for a great new car, repay a chunk of the mortgage or save for retirement. Even better deals are available at places like the Bumrungrad Hospital in Bangkok. An $87,000+ difference for an operation is an insulting joke.
As a practicing physician for the last 15 years, currently treating patients full-time in hospitals, I have several comments after reading all of the posts in this thread: The threat of a malpractice suit causes me to order at least twice as many tests as I would normally consider necessary. Health care costs could be dramatically decreased if the threat of malpractice were reduced. Although you see big medical bills, only about 25% of what is charged in hospitals is ever collected. In fact, hospitals in my area may start going bankrupt from the flood of unemployed and uninsured patients coming into the ER and into the hospital who cannot pay their bills. An unhealthy lifestyle causes more health problems than anything else. Obesity, tobacco, alcohol and drug abuse lead to a large percentage of the health care costs generated in the US. Some countries with socialized medicine would not allow a patient to have a knee replacement who weighs 300 pounds until they lose weight or allow a person to have heart bypass surgery who still smokes, but we do it here every day. The majority of health care costs occur in the last year of life. Hospitals are full of patients in their 80s and older who are demented and bedridden with no quality of life. Yet we spend hundreds of thousands of dollars keeping them alive. This is a serious moral issue that will likely be impossible to resolve.
When you realize that optimizing the levels of two key vitamins in the body will cure, prevent, or improve the patient's condition better than most all other established treatments, worrying about the right diagnosis becomes insignificant. http://orthomed.com/titrate.htm http://www.vitamindcouncil.org/research.shtml
Try taking 3-5 grams of ascorbic acid or any ascorbate salt, repeat every few hours. I doubt your rectum will be intact after a couple doses! Thats why the effects of IV Vitamin C can't be replicated using oral administration.
The article mentions one case of one individual. This is not evidence of anything. She might have recovered just as well with or without Vit C. Very little venom may have been injected. Who knows ? This sort of bs is grossly misleading and downright dangerous. The obligation is on proponents to show that Vit C treatment does work not for me to show that it does not.
Obviously you didn't read this paper:http://orthomed.com/titrate.htm Dr. Cathcart found that some patients could tolerate 200+ grams orally per day when extremely ill. And yes I have tried it many times. When I am healthy I will bowel tolerance with a single 2 gram dose of ascorbic acid. After a night of alcohol consumptive I routinely take 6 to 10 grams before I go to bed. When my hay fever is really bad I can tolerate 25 grams a day.
I have posted many reference read them all. More case studies: http://www.seanet.com/~alexs/ascorbate/198x/smith-lh-clinical_guide_1988.htm
Intravenous ascorbic acid as a treatment for severe jellyfish stings. Kumar S, Miranda-Massari JR, Gonzalez MJ, Riordan HD. Wong & Ung Clinic, Lot 5, Jalan Bunga Anggerek, Federal Territory of Labuan, Malaysia. We report a case of jellyfish envenomation in a 39 year old male. He was stung extensively on both lower limbs by an unidentified jellyfish. This occurred in shallow waters of a beach in the vicinity of Labuan Island, Malaysia. The patient received ambulatory treatment with parenteral and oral ascorbate with remarkable recovery. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15377062