NYT: Helping patients face death, she fought to live

[Guest guest]

An illustration of the rather limited and inadequate choices available

to those going the coventional route . . .

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[Guest guest]

That story is so incredibly sad in that as hard as she fought and wanted to

live, she could think of no other avenue than conventional treatment, even if it

was aggressive and painful and hopeless. At least, the article doesn't mention

her trying any natural treatments. And I think its disturbing that her job was

to convince cancer patients that they had no other choice but to give up and

die, when many cancer patients can still reverse their disease if they walk away

from these doctors.

[Guest guest]

Wow, that was a heck of a story. I kept expecting Dr. Pardi to turn to

alternatives but apparently she was convinced that if there was a solution it

had to come from standard oncological research. I recall reading on the

American Cancer Society website that milkshakes were a good nutritious snack.

She seems to have embraced that notion. What is sad is that there is so little

curiosity among the medical establishment. No chemo helped with her recurrence

but instead of considering what else there might be out there (oops, there

really can't be anything else, otherwise she & her oncologists would have known

about it), she just reaches for more toxic drugs. And the tragedy is that this

deplorable lack of curiosity not only costs some doctors their lives, but also

thousands & thousands of others.

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> An illustration of the rather limited and inadequate choices available

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