Awrr! On the bonny boat PIRATE we didn’t uses leaches. We keel hauled the lubber to remove bad spirits. Speakin of spirits, grog or a bottle of rum on this dead man’s chest.
“helping others” while helping yourself to all their money is such a wonderful feeling. Big Pharma& Big Health Insurance, saving you from the burden of how to spend your money.
This is obnoxious. Medical science, while hardly perfect, is light-years beyond Charles II. Clyde implies that modern chemo is the equivalent of “medical” efforts based on superstition and speculation, none of which was based on the scientific method. Doctors at that point didn’t even study anatomy directly, let alone perform surgery, which was done by low-class butchers.
By the way, bleeding was NOT done with leeches, which indeed do have some modern medical uses.
Furthermore, chemotherapy is tailored to the type of cancer, not administered at random. It has improved so markedly that there are many forms of cancer that are essentially curable that were fatal twenty years ago.
There are criticisms to be made of Big Pharma, but this one is simply ignorant.
lewisbower over 14 years ago
Awrr! On the bonny boat PIRATE we didn’t uses leaches. We keel hauled the lubber to remove bad spirits. Speakin of spirits, grog or a bottle of rum on this dead man’s chest.
napaeric over 14 years ago
“helping others” while helping yourself to all their money is such a wonderful feeling. Big Pharma& Big Health Insurance, saving you from the burden of how to spend your money.
jpozenel over 14 years ago
As usual, Clyde poses questions, but never solutions.
idahogrl over 14 years ago
I just realized that Clyde’s hat looks a lot like the hat that Padddington Bear wore in the books I used to read as a little girl. Hmmm…
Motivemagus over 14 years ago
This is obnoxious. Medical science, while hardly perfect, is light-years beyond Charles II. Clyde implies that modern chemo is the equivalent of “medical” efforts based on superstition and speculation, none of which was based on the scientific method. Doctors at that point didn’t even study anatomy directly, let alone perform surgery, which was done by low-class butchers. By the way, bleeding was NOT done with leeches, which indeed do have some modern medical uses. Furthermore, chemotherapy is tailored to the type of cancer, not administered at random. It has improved so markedly that there are many forms of cancer that are essentially curable that were fatal twenty years ago. There are criticisms to be made of Big Pharma, but this one is simply ignorant.