Posted by yxibow on November 9, 2008, at 3:39:23
In reply to Re: What is your definition of a 'Miracle Drug'?, posted by SLS on November 6, 2008, at 19:31:37
> I guess I should have used the term "Miracle Drug Treatment". I certainly am experiencing a miracle of modern psychopharmacology. However, I must take 4 drugs for my miracle to happen.
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> Where would we be were we to be born 300 years ago? For me, nearly all of modern medicine is a miracle when considered in this context. I am very appreciative of man's modern medical inventions. Penicillin is a miracle drug, despite an increasingly treatment resistant population of microbes.
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> It is a matter of attitude. No scientist owes the rest of us anything. Why do so many of us place blame on scientists when they don't accomplish what we want them to? Anyone can find fault with the system. However, I almost never see on this forum a recognition of what is right about the system. I am very much in favor of improving the system. However, disparagement alone is not terribly constructive in my opinion.
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> Any treatment that brings me to remission is a miracle treatment for me.
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> My miracle drugs:
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> Parnate 80mg
> nortriptyline 150mg
> Lamictal 200mg
> Abilify 20mg
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> - Scott
I appreciate your semantics of what you think is a "miracle drug treatment".For me, I guess I know in my mind that there is no perfect world and there is no magic bullet for anything.
I agree with you on antibiotics, and that was my example of one of the few agents that we can say probably is a cure and not a palliative, should they work.
I wasn't trying to put anyone's hopes down -- if I was misunderstood in this thread I apologize. I have a hard time having the hope to hope. So maybe I was projecting.
I was just trying to define the definition between a cure and and a palliative. A cure is something that happens spontaneously, or e.g. your cancer remits and you never have it again.
A palliative, which are what lots of agents are, are things that allow us to have as normal a life as possible against all odds and if I sounded maudlin that they wouldn't last -- well I am an experience that not all things last in quite the same way as you think they should and what I thought was a "cure" was in fact palliatives.Oxford Dictionary:
palliative
A. adj.
1. a. That relieves the symptoms of a disease or condition without dealing with the underlying cause.
B. n.
1. a. A treatment that gives temporary or symptomatic relief; something that serves to alleviate or mitigate pain, disease, suffering, etc.
Here is where I underline "symptomatic relief". That's the important part. To me, and perhaps only me. Your symptoms are at bay.
But lest this not please give some people less hope than they may already have. There are a lot of agents out there, sometimes the new ones aren't always the best, sometimes they are.
I hope you find in your mind a "miracle drug", even if I disagree with the word in psychiatry -- god only knows I wish I could have a miracle happen spontaneously, and that is my definition of a miracle, not someones else.I hope this clarifies that I have a hard time grasping on to the word miracle, but if it is something that people consider what has allowed them to live a productive life in the Here and Now, call it what ever you want.
-- best wishesJay
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