MY SAY:THE HIVES OF AUGUST-MEDICINE’S BOLD NEW FRONTIERS
I grew up to senior level on standard laboratory tests, vaccinations, CAT scans, anti-biotics, the dazzling triumphs over heart disease that prolonged the life of millions, the absolutely infallible curative power of chicken soup, and the ministrations of my father and my late husband who were both internists.
This August I developed an acute and then progressive allergic reaction…details are boring…I feel well and remain under the treatment and guidance of wonderful doctors in varied specialties. What really dazzled me are the new frontiers of medical research today that neither my husband or father knew anything about. My granddaughter is in medical school and, fortuitously, quite aware of this new and growing research, namely, immunology, immune suppression, genetic predispositions, diagnosis to control and cure, and computational medicine with mathematical modeling of complex medical systems.
Look around you folks, many oldsters you see will be nonagenarians with active lives due to magnificent American Medicine. Don’t let “reformers” sell you on Socialized Medicine. Hold your legislators’ feet to the fire.
However, chicken soup still works wonders on mind and body. rsk
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