I used to work with respiratory specialists/oncologists a lot. I never saw a single one who did anything but marvel when their patients with mesothelioma miraculously survivedhttps://twitter.com/AlanLevinovitz/status/1003284246100881409 …
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The narrative that doctors don't want their patients to get better because they'll go out of work is so mindlessly ridiculous it's almost funny
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Everyone wants sick people to get better, doctors MORE THAN MOST
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If there was an effective treatment that cured all cancer, doctors would be lining up to learn about it because (shocker) making people well is literally their lives
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Replying to @GidMK
Gee you’re lucky, I’ve never seen anyone survive mesothelioma
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By "survive" I mean "survive longer than predicted" to be honest. The median time is 9 months from memory, but we had the occasional person living for 2+ years
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