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Jean_Anthony
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Please stay on topic, folks. Take any side issues into other threads on the appropriate fora. Thank you, everyone.
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kentuckyliz
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Regarding cardiotoxicity, another medical advance I’m grateful for is 4D EKGs with ultrasound! Y’all, I have seen my heart as well as it can be seen without cracking my chest open. Amazing!
Re your medical advice, I’ll go with my oncologist’s advice before an anonymous 18 year old on the internet. No offense. My oncologists are top-level practitioners with a national and international reputation. They are on top of research that hasn’t even been published yet. (And mom won’t benefit from any additional treatment, being dead and all. LOL)
My main point is…I am grateful for the medical advances that have happened before and within my lifetime. I have an aunt who died at age 5 of diphtheria in the early 20th century. We forget that it has not been very long that people died of communicable diseases and average life expectancy was much shorter; that for most of human history it was a challenge just to get enough calories to survive. We have much to be grateful for.
Every age has had its moral rot, and to think otherwise is just a form of denial. Nostalgia wears rose colored glasses. The world has always been “going to hell in a handbasket.”
Wheat and tares!!!
Re your medical advice, I’ll go with my oncologist’s advice before an anonymous 18 year old on the internet. No offense. My oncologists are top-level practitioners with a national and international reputation. They are on top of research that hasn’t even been published yet. (And mom won’t benefit from any additional treatment, being dead and all. LOL)
My main point is…I am grateful for the medical advances that have happened before and within my lifetime. I have an aunt who died at age 5 of diphtheria in the early 20th century. We forget that it has not been very long that people died of communicable diseases and average life expectancy was much shorter; that for most of human history it was a challenge just to get enough calories to survive. We have much to be grateful for.
Every age has had its moral rot, and to think otherwise is just a form of denial. Nostalgia wears rose colored glasses. The world has always been “going to hell in a handbasket.”
Wheat and tares!!!
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ribozyme
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Never offered any advice; I am just interested in this stuff (in current applications of medicine, not phantasms about nanobots and “rejuvenation therapies” that de Grey alludes to that might not be available in the future unfortunately) and I do not have any peers to discuss it with. I suppose it is intellectual stimulating this in comparision to watching anime and hearing Kurzweil discuss some putative singularity. I only read a few things about it. Also I need to study the ontogenic pathways diligently now. So much information… so little time to master it.Regarding cardiotoxicity, another medical advance I’m grateful for is 4D EKGs with ultrasound! Y’all, I have seen my heart as well as it can be seen without cracking my chest open. Amazing!
Re your medical advice, I’ll go with my oncologist’s advice before an anonymous 18 year old on the internet. No offense. My oncologists are top-level practitioners with a national and international reputation. They are on top of research that hasn’t even been published yet. (And mom won’t benefit from any additional treatment, being dead and all. LOL)
My main point is…I am grateful for the medical advances that have happened before and within my lifetime. I have an aunt who died at age 5 of diphtheria in the early 20th century. We forget that it has not been very long that people died of communicable diseases and average life expectancy was much shorter; that for most of human history it was a challenge just to get enough calories to survive. We have much to be grateful for.
Every age has had its moral rot, and to think otherwise is just a form of denial. Nostalgia wears rose colored glasses. The world has always been “going to hell in a handbasket.”
Wheat and tares!!!
Maybe reread that some chapters in Molecular Biology of the Cell. Is there any point to doing this? It seems to only isolate myself from my peers further when I am doing this during whatever freetime I have although it is interesting knowledge.I also wanted to see if I had enough sanity to at least understand contemporary cancer treatments and see if I have the ability to discuss them without saying “nanobots” or some other chimerical fantasy about the future.
I hope I at least understand reality well enough in that domain.I think cancer treatments are somewhat relevant to the thread:
I will respond that I am still afraid of dying of some disease (probably cancer), and I am afraid that technology will not advance enough to eradicate poverty before 2050. It would be a scary world if Ray Kurzweil’s prophecies were incorrect.
Medical therapies have made the world a better place, but I do not know if the fundamental problems would be solved such as poverty and social inequality. If I know for sure that they wouldn’t be resolved, it seems that I have no reason to live. I want to live long enough to see this problems solved and I made that my goal in life. (I don’t know how exactly, maybe an AI would propose a solution.) But I do try to maintain some hope and not be mired in a morass of despair.
I am only interested in the future… the afflictions of the past must be conquered.
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Jean_Anthony
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This thread is closed. Thank you all.
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