Modern Medicine (a spoof)

[Joanne98]

Run time: 04:37 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ys_EZ9gMetU   Posted on YouTube: July 26, 2009 By YouTube Member: Views on YouTube: 0   Posted on DU: July 26, 2009 By DU Member: Joanne98 Views on DU: 1638

 

I'm not endorsing this company. It's a good video. Ignore the end.

[tabatha]

1. Thanks - says it well.

[PatSeg]

2. Yeah, they nailed it

and I was just discussing this with a relative.

[sakabatou]

3. Because as we all know

Alternative medicine will make sure I don't have seizures or make the scarring on brain disappear. But the video did nail a couple of points.

[AlbertCat]

4. Yes! Quantum touch!

Quantum touch is where they touch you in little packets of energy on the sub atomic level. It's so alternative, it doesn't even make sense! If your appendix bursts, quantum touch will make it not so until someone opens a box to see if the cat is alive or dead. After all, you cannot know the velocity AND the position of your kidney stones at the same time.


BTW...ancient medicine also cut things out and gave people poison... with little or no empirical evidence any of that stuff worked. Personally I think we should go back to the ancient art of bleeding to reduce fever. Ancient western medical wisdom! C'mon.... they did it for centuries! It musta worked!

[Creationismsucks]

5. Hey there Albert cat

Good to see you. They already ARE using bloodletting again. Check it out; leaches are back!

Holy shit.

[AlbertCat]

8. Are they quantum leeches??? Not leeches! But "BLEEDING"

[Creationismsucks]

9. not sure I follow you there, AC.

The whole point of leeches (as I understand it) is that they suck up your blood, is it not? I always thought leeches were a method of bleeding patients.


...maybe the medieval leeches have been replaced with the modern ones in health insurance companies!

[AlbertCat]

11. Oh y'know...

When they used to actually cut the patient and let the "bad blood" drain into a bowl (They used to have a "bite" taken out of the rim to place the patient's arm in.)

They thought it would lower you fever.... losing quart of blood.

[Creationismsucks]

13. Yup,

Well aware of that. I guess I was just more impressed than you were, about the fact that leeches performed essentially the same service, albeit in a much less graphic way.

Remember the old Steve Martin sketch on Saturday Night Live called "Theodoric Of Yorrick: Medieval Barber?"

His cure for everything was bleeding. Patients were dying left and right on him. Fun.

[Creationismsucks]

6. Could barely make it through this POS

That attitude toward modern medicine is unbelievably arrogant.

I'll take modern, Western, evidence-based medicine every day of the week.

...plus a good deal more preventative thinking than we used previously.

[lame54]

7. So we should get our health care from a country that ranks 61..

http://lauraschneider.wordpress.com/2009/06/20/where-does-america-rank-in-healthcare-quality-and-efficiency/

37 U.S.A. 132 Burkina Faso
38 Slovenia 133 Sao Tome & Principe
39 Cuba 134 Sudan
40 Brunei Darussalam 135 Ghana
41 New Zealand 136 Tuvalu
42 Bahrain 137 Côte d’Ivoire
43 Croatia 138 Haiti
44 Qatar 139 Gabon
45 Kuwait 140 Kenya
46 Barbados 141 Marshall Islands
47 Thailand 142 Kiribati
48 Czech Republic 143 Burundi
49 Malaysia 144 China
50 Poland 145 Mongolia
51 Dominican Republic 146 Gambia
52 Tunisia 147 Maldives
53 Jamaica 148 Papua New Guinea
54 Venezuela 149 Uganda
55 Albania 150 Nepal
56 Seychelles 151 Kyrgyzstan
57 Paraguay 152 Togo
58 South Korea 153 Turkmenistan
59 Senegal 154 Tajikistan
60 Philippines 155 Zimbabwe
61 Mexico 156 Tanzania
62 Slovakia

http://www.cancerhelp.org.uk/help/default.asp?page=11211#cost

"Another example is the Gerson Clinic in Mexico. They charge around £2,500 a week for a treatment you have in your own home. Treatment can last a few months or even longer. A year’s treatment can cost you £130,000!
From individual patient reports and advertisements on the internet, costs range from £2,000 to well over £20,000, depending on the type of alternative treatment you have and on how long you carry on with it"


Last year a homeopathic doctor advised my wife's son to stop his Doctor prescribe medications and treatment and check into this clinic in Mexico. My son went into cardiac arrest because of this advice and is still alive thanks to the emt and er doctor.
Alternative medicine is not as cheap as they proclaim and could cost you your life.

[Creationismsucks]

10. Wow

What a terrible thing to have to go through.

[Confusious]

12. Reminds me of a Client of a friend of mine

Thought he could regulate manic depression by "the body healing itself, eating healthy foods, and exercise".

What did my friend think?

"It ain't fucking working. He's worse then before"

If I got a scratch, I'll take traditional medicine, thank you.