Time To Get Ill
I heard today that MCA from the Beastie Boys has been cleared of his cancer. He’s been under a regimen that included Chinese medicinal and herbal remedies as well as a vegan diet. Of course, in trying to be the optimist about my mom’s situation, I wonder how this could help her if at all. The frustrating part about medicine is that even with as many advances as we have, there are still so many things we can’t do. When you look at what we call alternative medicine, we see the strangest successes there. Because a treatment hasn’t been reviewed, tested, and poured over with facts and figures from some institute with a prestigious background, we look down on its efficacy. Not knowing someone personally who has experienced the benefit of these so called alternative treatments, believing in the possibility that they can help feels foolish. Seeing the medicine your loved one is currently using, not work the way you want it to is maddening.
UPDATE (01/08/2011): It appears the report of MCA no longer having cancer was false. He’s still in treatment.
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