I agree. As health care is taken over more and more by those hungry for profit and power, i.e., insurance companies, big pharma and the government, it becomes less and less responsive to the actual needs of patients. And doctors for that matter.
There seems to be a growing underground network of healthcare professionals, and their loyal following of patients, who are not afraid to buck the system and go off on their own into the worlds of alternative medicine and alternative medical practice. Personally, I am quite willing to pay out-of-pocket for such care, because it is often more effective than orthodox medical care, plus it isn't nearly as expensive, given that those doctors get 100% of the money I give them, not having to share it with the insurance industry, except of course for malpractice premiums... <sigh>. One result of this is a growing number of alternative doctors who are lyme literate, and who prescribe EIS in amounts and durations to actually cure the disease once and for all, which mainstream medicine and health insurance is unable and unwilling to do. We may all be our own guinea pigs here, but the results speak for themselves, and I am very glad to have found this email list and group of independent-minded people, who aren't afraid to go over, through, or around the medical establishment, from whom I am learning so much. Thank you. Dick ----- Original Message ---- From: M. G. Devour <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Tue, January 26, 2010 4:50:40 PM Subject: Re: CS>Anecdotal Evidence and CS Sad tale, Steve, and good points. Vito might have had a herx reaction, too. <sigh> Still, if you add up enough anecdotal evidence across a large enough population and long enough period of time, it starts to become reasonable to draw some tentative conclusions. For instance, how many folks report going for years at a time without getting sick after starting to take CS... after a lifetime of getting colds, flu, or whatever, on a regular basis along with everyone else? Hear that tale often enough and you'll start to think maybe CS is contributing to that. Even in mainstream science and medicine, there's a vehicle for developing research directions on the basis of clinical experience. If a doctor sees something interesting happening in his or her patients, they can publish this, usually in the form of a survey of the literature and a case report, which seeks to interest researchers in pursuing further studies based on those anecdotal reports. Of course, we're not doctors, there are no "official" journals ready to publish our reports, and no bevy of institutions looking for ways to spend grant money developing our ideas. And ideas that are too radical or "crackpot" sounding are unlikely to get picked up, even when it *is* a doctor making the report. Some would also suggest there needs to be some profit in the idea for somebody. So for things like CS we're limited to watching the literature, accumulating anecdotes, and doing as much testing as we can afford to do as individuals and small groups. We can wish for more, but there's still good that's come of what we've been able to do. Mike D. -- The Silver List is a moderated forum for discussing Colloidal Silver. Instructions for unsubscribing are posted at: http://silverlist.org To post, address your message to: [email protected] Address Off-Topic messages to: [email protected] The Silver List and Off Topic List archives are currently down... List maintainer: Mike Devour <[email protected]>
