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“Though the doctors treated him,
let his blood,
and gave him medications to drink,
he nevertheless recovered.”
- Leo Tolstoy
Do You Trust Doctors?
Did you know that surgeons in the fifties looked at their hands under X-Rays while they operated?
Yeah. It worked out just like you think.
Then, there is Dr. Alice M. Stewart --
an epidemiologist who first demonstrated the link between X-rays of pregnant women
and disease in their children in 1956.
Never heard of her? Not surprising.
The medical establishment did all they could to crush her.
Her finding that there was danger in receiving even such a low dose of
radiation
was met with outrage by doctors and the nuclear industry,
and
Dr. Stewart had difficulties obtaining financing for other studies.
But
by the mid-1970's, other scientists (male)
had duplicated her findings on
prenatal X-rays, and the practice ended.
Want to read more of this heroic woman?
Read ''The Woman Who Knew Too Much: Alice Stewart and the Secrets of Radiation''
by Dr. Dr. Gayle Greene of Scripps College in Claremont, California.
Do You Trust The Medical Profession?
Hi Roland - like all things in life ... we need to spend more time understanding and then make that necessary decision. Hopefully we have an opportunity to find people we can trust - after careful research ... cheers Hilary
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Access the data and run with it, right? :-) Good to see you here!
DeletePoor Dr. Stewart. Born the "wrong" gender in an era when such things mattered even more than they do now.
ReplyDeleteSadly, the world always seems to judge by the wrong standards. :-(
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