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From: The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid>
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Subject: Re: Remember "Bit-Slice" Chips ?
Date: Sun, 29 Dec 2024 12:11:04 +0000
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On 29/12/2024 11:02, D wrote:
> 
> 
> On Sat, 28 Dec 2024, The Natural Philosopher wrote:
> 
>> On 28/12/2024 11:17, D wrote:

>>
>> Its a question of the least worst remedies. Everything has a side 
>> effect. I tried beta blockers but felt like a zombie.
> 
> Sometimes I get the feeling that doctors are still very close to 
> medieval alchemists and have no clue what's going on. I have a very 
> mild, but annoying skin desease that came from nowhere. Since it is very 
> mild, and only flares up about once a month I never bothered to do 
> anything about it. But I had some extra time and went to a doctor, he 
> called in 2 others doctors, and they were looking at it for 20 minutes 
> discussing, and in the end admitted they had no idea what it is and gave 
> me some creams.
> 
I had the same. It turned out that I had been using a lot of bleach to 
clean my house after I got my ex out of it.  and it affected my skin.

> The creams gave me 2 small permanent scars, that otherwise would have 
> disappeared (thank you Mr. Doctor!). They told me to come back and they 
> would look some more. ;)
> 
> So I wonder if I should do it, or if they will manage to make it worse 
> the second time as well? On the other hand, I am curious about what it 
> is, and it would be nice to know.
> 
If it doesn't kill you no one has studied it.

Medicine is tampering with a massively complex dynamic system, and only 
by trial and error does it become appernet what works and what does not.


>> Cancer is an utter bitch. I am on my second now, having fully survived 
>> the
> 
> This is the truth!
> 
>> first,  but it is ultimately incurable, just very slow developing, so 
>> its likely something else will kill me first.
> 
> My grandmother had some form of slow acting blood cancer I think. In the 
> end I think she died of old age at 95.
> 
Yep. That's the one. Had it at least ten years with no real effect.

>>
>> The cancer was never present in the bowel to any high degree, just 
>> mounting back pain and lymph node lumps a few weeks before the end.
> 
> Horrible! =(
> 
>> Some cancers are easy.. Some are harder and some are impossible.
>> GPs are not equipped for this. My GP threw me straight at oncology to 
>> check out something suspicious. She is rather conscientious.
> 
> My mothers doctor told me that cancer is not one disease, it's 100s of 
> different ones and apparently that is why it is so difficult to cure it. 
> Research focuses on the most common ones, and I imagine there is very 
> little money in the least common ones.

All it really is, is abnormal genetics taking hold. A mutation appears, 
survives and then prospers.

It is pure luck of the draw, mostly.

And its hard to call e.g. heart disease a disease, since there is no 
active agency causing it.

It's an effect of genetics and lifestyle choices and a huge slice of luck.





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In todays liberal progressive conflict-free education system, everyone 
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