lexator222 Wrote:I recently reread "Hosts", and I have a question for the good Doctor Wilson:
If Jack and his sister Kate could be infected by a small portion of the infected person's blood, why didn't Jack think that perhaps his blood, since it had antibodies to fight the "Otherness" virus, would kill the virus in Kate's body. Since she was basically facing a death sentence, being controlled by the hive, anything would be better than submission.
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Lexx
lexator222 Wrote:I recently reread "Hosts", and I have a question for the good Doctor Wilson:I don't know where to begin with all the misinformation here. The AMA doesn't make the rules, the FDA does, and lawyers sue docs who use off-label therapies.
If Jack and his sister Kate could be infected by a small portion of the infected person's blood, why didn't Jack think that perhaps his blood, since it had antibodies to fight the "Otherness" virus, would kill the virus in Kate's body. Since she was basically facing a death sentence, being controlled by the hive, anything would be better than submission.
I have seen the medical community sit by and watch people with AIDS, or cancer, just waste away, since the AMA won't allow any doctors to "think outside the box", and just use drugs to make the patient confortable, and allow them to die in a "dignified manner"! There is nothing dignified about allowing a hideous virus like AIDS, or cancer, eat a human from the inside out! The AMA would rather let people die, than let anyone experiment with any "unapproved" drugs or procedures, like the one explained in the book.
BTW: is that a real procedure? I found it fantastic, in the treatment of tumors.
Lexx
lexator222 Wrote:If Jack and his sister Kate could be infected by a small portion of the infected person's blood, why didn't Jack think that perhaps his blood, since it had antibodies to fight the "Otherness" virus, would kill the virus in Kate's body.
Ken Valentine Wrote:Did Jack have antibodies to fight the "otherness" virus? Seems to me that what he actually has is "otherness" DNA.
Ken V.
cobalt79 Wrote:I know you addressed this to Paul....but, there are meds to keep people comfortable where there is intractable pain in the dying process. It's a combination of narcotics and anti-anxiety meds plus meds to dry up secretions. It's what we call "the golden 3".
But I think you're advocating assisted suicide....something many want, yet by law and medical ethics, we can not offer at this time.
As to targeted therapies to treat specific tumors....yup....being done with monoclonal antibodies and murine manufactured treatments.
lexator222 Wrote:Now, what part in what I said advocates suicide?
Quote:....since the AMA won't allow any doctors to "think outside the box", and just use drugs to make the patient confortable, and allow them to die in a "dignified manner"!
KRW Wrote:And what if he's A+ and she 's B-?Then there could be no transfusion.
Quote: I read somewhere that that's not good.It's not.
cobalt79 Wrote:Your statement below.
I also said...."I Think...." since it appeared to me you were advocating death with dignity, one of the assisted suicide's mantras.
and this scipt is giving me a headache! ugh.