Well said!!!
Thanks you for this input.
John
>Amidst all the furore about antibiotics we seem to be allowing a major
>*development* to pass us by without even a comment as to it's
>desirability.
>
>A government-supervised programme testing appendices and tonsils for new
>variant CJD *will* start.
>It is hailed as creating *unprecedented diagnostic possibilities* and
>making it possible to *diagnose patients before they are aware they are
>infected*
>
>There is no treatment for this disease.
>The inevitable end is death - an undignified humiliating death.
>
>Would you want to know?
>
>
>Those who followed recent threads may recall I have polycystic kidneys.
>My big mistake was finding out I had it before it affected me.
>Now this is an illness for which there is a treatment, advances are made
>in leaps and bounds and although death from renal failure is inevitable
>it is not necessarily undignified or humiliating.
>But still there are enormous psychological effects of knowing one has it
>aswell as the impossibility of life, sickness or health insurance.
>
>Apparently if the testing programme produces positive results it will
>become proactive with tests before surgery....
>To whose benefit would this be?
>
>Surely this is not ethical?
>I, for one, would strongly urge my patients to resist such testing.
>
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>
>We should not underestimate the damage that can be done by gaining
>knowledge of the future.
>--
>Katie
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