Re: t-and-f: Ernst Van Aaken and longevity

[Kurt Bray]

I sat next to and chatted with Dr. Edell at a luncheon event about 15 years ago. He's a nice enough guy, but even then he was a total media doc - no longer practices any sort of medicine nor conducts any research of his own. He's a talking head you can hire with M.D. after his name. As I recall, he said his medical training was in Ob/Gyn. I'm not sure exactly who I'd turn to for longevity advice, but it probably wouldn't be my wife's gynecologist.

Kurt Bray

I think you'll find that Edell is a rather creative thinker. Check this out:

http://www.healthcentral.com/drdean/deanfulltexttopics.cfm?ID=7722&storytype
=DeanQuestions

> From: Herb Finkelstein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Reply-To: Herb Finkelstein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Date: Mon, 30 Dec 2002 14:19:38 -0600
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: t-and-f: Ernst Van Aaken and longevity
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>> But his bottom line is what sticks with me: no matter how many
>> days/months/years you get added to your life, they get added at the end.
>> They're the days before you die. His rhetorical question was, do you really
>> want to spend that much more time in a nursing home?
>
> Truly bizarre that a member of a profession given to
> ever-more-heroically-ridiculous end-of-life treatments that often simply
> prolong a dying person's suffering would make such a statement. Someone ask
> Dr. Edell about that. Pot calling the kettle black if ever there were a
> case of it.
>
> Herb
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