In a message dated 8/16/03 6:08:59 AM Pacific Daylight Time, EdgarStmartins
writes:
<<
<<
Hi,
Never trust the Doctors they are butchers, u r better off going to the
tailor.
Moidekars are not mad after all.
Joe.
>>
With due respect to Jose Colaco, Santosh and to our oncologist, Gilbert.
I partially agree with the above wrt most doctors who are in my opinion
equivalent to drug pushers and who are money conscious. They are so busy that they
live in a world of their own. They are opinionated and consider themselves
erudite. Note their language as they speak and write as if they are in a pulpit
or on a pedestal. Please note that I am not referring to every doctor but to
most. Very few have time for improving their general knowledge. The Democratic
front runner is an exception. At twelve, they say, Christ debated with Doctors
and Scribes. Today, Doctors have no time for debating and would rather
pontificate.
Aspirin for example has its origins in alternative medicine. Malaria
found an initial cure in Peru and the Quinona Tree which was used to
manufacture Quinine till synthetic drugs were introduced. Even today, I will venture
to
write that Quinine is more efficient as a cure than Chloroquine and
nivaquine. Many plants have been known to cure mans ills. Amerindians cured the white
man of his scurvy and our Goan Pundits cured many a Portuguese with herbal and
ayurvedic portions when the only cure the European knew was bleeding a
patient at the hands of a barber. I have just read a book by Josip Gabre on How I
beat Cancer. He was told that he had papilliary transitional cell carcinoma
Grade III/IV with the invasion of sub-mucosa and smoothe mussle. Bacillus Calmette
Guerin was inserted into his bladder, he claims, and he ended up worse than
before. He lost his bladder and was told that his cancer had spread. He cured
himself with Taheebo Tea which is a tree from Chile.Could Gilbert explain the
role of BCG in curing bladder cancer. Mr. Gabre claims that the BCG damaged
irreversibly his bladder which had to be extracted. When Medics cannot cure a
person, why should he not look for a cure in alternate medication or even in
prayer and miracles?
Doctors should admit the efficacity of herbal drugs and not ask for
scientific proof of its operation. One is only interested in the cure before
he can ask questions. When a glass, some cotton and a match was used to
extract pain in a procedure call VENTOS when I was a kid, I never asked my
grandmother proof of its efficacity as the pain was uppermost in my mind.
I personally seek the advice of doctors before I drink some strange
infusions. I do this as a last resort. Most doctors are frauds whose main
objective is money and the interests of the patient are secondary. Finding an
honest and conscientious doctor today is like finding a nugget of gold in the
Mandovi. This is also true with those who practice alternative medicine. We live in
a very strange world where the media and opinions play a strong influence on
our minds.
Edgar Martins
##########################################################################
# Send submissions for Goanet to [EMAIL PROTECTED] #
# PLEASE remember to stay on-topic (related to Goa), and avoid top-posts #
# More details on Goanet at http://joingoanet.shorturl.com/ #
# Please keep your discussion/tone polite, to reflect respect to others #
##########################################################################
