behindyourightnow
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- May 17, 2021
Oh, I agree. I just think it's amusing that we are all allowed to admit that unnecessary surgeries happen in cancer care (even if it's due to genuine lack of knowledge, even if the reason behind it is a genuine desire to save lives) but we are supposed to think that in this field, despite being full of shady and blatantly money-hungry surgeons, every surgery is 100% necessary and if you disagree you are murdering children.Quality posts from @Lady Bizness and @behindyourightnow
The problem with oncology, as they noted, is that lack of knowledge. These cells might or might not be a problem. If you assume they won’t, and you’re wrong, the result could be catastrophic.
With SRS, it’s not even that. Sure, the suicide rate if SRS is not offered is unknown, so superficially this looks like a similar problem to the bird/turtle/rabbit problem. But the offer of SRS is in response to a problem which frequently is treatable by much less dramatic interventions, which we could determine but just don’t bother to. It’s as if the dodgy cells only looked dodgy under a distorting microscope - look at them properly and they are actually a different issue, so the bird/turtle/rabbit problem doesn’t even arise.