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From: dyer@wivax.UUCP (Stephen Dyer)
Newsgroups: net.med
Subject: Re: Another dramatic cancer cure for macrobiotics
Message-ID: <18735@wivax.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 6-Oct-83 22:06:12 EDT
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Posted: Thu Oct  6 22:06:12 1983
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I was reading the Boston Globe yesterday, and came across an obituary
for a woman, 41 years old, who died of cancer.  She was active in the
holistic health movement, and eschewed traditional therapies in favor
of nutritional approaches, including laetrile.  From all reports, she
was a vital, vibrant intense woman whose life was tragically cut short.

All I could think as I read this was how sad it was that she died,
and I could not help judging her decision as well-meaning and
committed, but ultimately stupid and wasteful.  It is impossible to
second-guess her outcome if she had been treated with traditional
medical therapies, but I firmly believe that her chances would have
been much greater than traipsing off to Mexico for treatments from
the much more questionable "Tijuana Establishment" which exists
solely to profit from the gullible and those beyond the abilities of
present medical technology.

/Steve Dyer
decvax!wivax!dyer