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Re: Penguin Pete Debunks "Ease of Use" in GNU/Linux Myths

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____/ Gregory Shearman on Saturday 02 Jul 2011 11:38 : \____

> On 2011-07-01, Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>> ____/ Gregory Shearman on Friday 01 Jul 2011 12:44 : \____
>>
>>> On 2011-07-01, Homer <usenet@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>> Verily I say unto thee, that Roy Schestowitz spake thusly:
>>>>
>>>>> The problem comes when people replace real treatment with this
>>>>> placebo, like when the evangelicals have people throw away their
>>>>> pills (and then die)
>>>>
>>>> Yes, that is foolish, but then there are also times when medical
>>>> treatment isn't much help either, or indeed actually causes death.
>>>>
>>>> Both my parents died from diseases they contracted /inside/ the
>>>> hospitals they were admitted to, for example.
>>> 
>>> Yeah, my mother died at age 64 from cancer. Nothing stopped it. All
>>> the doctors did, the chemo, the radiation, etc, and they just
>>> couldn't stop it. Yet my father got cancer a few years ago and was
>>> treated and was cured. Sometimes it seems that these things are
>>> delivered to us all at random. Actually, it is *exactly* like it is
>>> delievered to us at random.
>>
>> My grandmother died from cancer and medical treatment probably gave
>> her several more months to live. Smoking was too much though...
> 
> My mother probably got a few months extra from the treatment, but it was
> months of agony. She never smoked and didn't drink alcohol. She had a
> weight problem most of her life.

I know many people who survived cancer thanks to the medical profession. They can't
*always* cure the patients, but at last they try.

- -- 
		~~ Best of wishes

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