Sorry, I will take the cancer comment personally. That had nothing to do with my profession. That was pure arrogance. Like he would have any business saying that to ANYONE that they would shit if they saw a really sick cancer patient. One of the posters in this thread has a family member with cancer. Would he say that to that person? Did I just drop my father off at the hospital front door and say "Take care dad, see you when you get better. You know I would shit if I saw you really sick"? Nope...that's not how it was. Was he there when I was helping my father go to the bathroom? Was he there when my father was throwing up from treatment? Nope. I was. Did I shit my pants? Nope. Not once...fuck him
I think what he meant was that a Chiropractor would shit his pants if he was faced with having to medically manage the care provided to a cancer patient (i.e. determine which labs to run, which scans to order, which chemo to select, how much radiation to administer, what surgery to perform in order to remove tumors, lymph nodes and/or possibly portions of an organ if not the entire organ, when to stop treatment and refer to hospice etc.). I don't think he meant that you would lose your shit when having to care for (directly in your case as with your father) someone with cancer in a humane fashion which calls for a generous amount of sympathy. His stance was based more upon the idea of a chiropractor being faced with having to diagnose and properly treat a cancer patient by way of pharmaceutical and surgical intervention.
I could be wrong, but his stab was at the limited scope of practice a chiropractor would have if faced with a cancer patient in a clinical setting.
*Let me be clear
*... If an internal medicine doctor, cardiologist, gastroenterologist, pulmonologist or even dermatologist were faced with medically managing the
COMPLETE care of a patient with advanced stage metastatic cancer, they too would be shitting in their pants
INDIVIDUALLY.
THAT is why the medical model calls for the patient to be cared for by various specialists. If an end-stage cancer patient presents with left-ventricular hypertrophy, atelectasis of the lung, an acute case of diverticulitis and a sudden onset of psoriasis, GUESS WHAT!?!
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Instead of just an Oncologist treating the patient, you will have a cardiologist, pulmonologist, gastroenterologist and dermatologist
ALL making rounds on this patient to provide both their recommendations and implement pharmaceutical treatments, because if not for their united care towards the patient, they would each
INDIVIDUALLY SHIT THEIR PANTS if they had to care for all of this patient's problems on their own.
Again, I could be completely wrong..
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