Our private details, real names, diagnoses, etc. revealed online

Thanks to Eve and others who have supported me by PM.  I want to address the subjects of ethics and evidence since they are being discussed elsewhere. 

I can understand someone on the front line of emergency medicine, dealing with accidents and emergencies every shift, being on the edge after seeing horrendous injuries and dealing with aggressive people. I have a relative who's worked in A&E which she loved, but was assaulted by a patient on the job and now is still carrying a permanent, disabling injury with a reduced income and lower QOL.

Such front line workers have to deal with many who refuse treatment or to be taken to hospital, or admitted after emergency ward treatment.  They must be familiar with a patient's right to refuse treatment.  They must be trained in ethics to some degree, as in how to be polite and tolerant despite the patient screaming and swearing in pain and abusing them.  What concerns me is when such a person is only acting that way while at work, but in their personal life they swear and abuse cancer patients and tell them their treatment choices are wrong. They may observe patient confidentiality on the job yet spread other non patients' diagnoses and personal details across the internet, as if ethics suddenly ends on the doorstep. So they have a double standard.  I'm pleased my relative has not been affected that way and is always kind and considerate whether at work or outside.

Those who claim to support evidence based medicine and rational, critical thinking may still seem to have trouble incorporating that into their private life.  For example they may make assumptions about the real identity of posters without a shred of evidence then use it to denigrate the person.  They may misquote others so badly that one wonders how they ever got through their exams to qualify for their job.  

One of the main complaints against alternative practitioners or web sites is when they claim they can cure different conditions.  We all know, having had cancer, that doctors can never tell us we're cured as it may progress at any time.  So why would anyone supporting evidence based medicine declare that conventional medicine can cure diabetes or any of the other conditions I previously named? And where are the studies to support that claim?  Is this another double standard? Gastric bypass surgery appears to cure NIDDM but is extreme surgery for obesity and not used primarily for that purpose.  Research into cures for insulin dependant diabetes include pancreatic transplants, stem cells and other advanced procedures, but for the average person there is no cure in sight for years.  It is, at the moment, incurable.  Here is a fascinating article with an unusual solution, from Science Daily.

Potential 'Cure' for Type 1 Diabetes?

Note, I have never posted anywhere on medical sites or blogs, using the name "Leah". If I'm not using my real name then I use Joy, with or without extra letters as Joy is often not available. 

Also I am not qualified in the medical or nutritional field and may not use correct terms, so please take my writing as it is.  See your physician for medical advice.

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