"Our cancer-killing pill is like a snowstorm that closes a key airline hub, shutting down all flights in and out only in planes carrying cancer cells," says the professor who has been developing the new drug over the past 20 years.
I find it a bit reductive to call palliative care a moneymaking scheme overall. Especially cruel to workers in the field, which is one of the toughest one as far as mental health goes.
Yeah I do understand what you are saying. And I may have gone too overboard with my pessimism. This being cancer and all.
It’s just that too many bad actors have taken advantage of regular folks and their situations. It’s hard not to react in a pessimistic view when there’s hardly any good news to come by, or any good development that gets twisted into a nightmare of a tool just to take advantage of people’s hope for better care.
No I don’t think it will cost a dollar. That was hyperbole.
That’s what it is, a subscription based cure.
“as long as you buy our medicine you will live!”
I sure hope it isn’t like this. Medicine just enough to stave the progress of the illness but also not enough to cure it.
I find it a bit reductive to call palliative care a moneymaking scheme overall. Especially cruel to workers in the field, which is one of the toughest one as far as mental health goes.
Yeah I do understand what you are saying. And I may have gone too overboard with my pessimism. This being cancer and all.
It’s just that too many bad actors have taken advantage of regular folks and their situations. It’s hard not to react in a pessimistic view when there’s hardly any good news to come by, or any good development that gets twisted into a nightmare of a tool just to take advantage of people’s hope for better care.
I know what you’re saying, but cancer being a chronic condition is great.