Sunday, March 19, 2006

Jessie and Joshua in a Medical School????

My friend Pierce, while we were still in talking terms, had told me in confidence that Jessie was going away to medical school. He just posted this news publicly on his blog, although he qualified it as a rumour.

I have unconfirmed info from someone claimed closed to Jessie Chung that both Joshua and Jessie has left to study for a medical degree. Cannot confirm this because I have not talk to her since CNY. I’ve no further details on this, so, don’t ask me for details.
Anyway, I’ll be going back to my usual self now to continue looking for projects and money to survive.


As far as I can tell, most North American ACCREDITED medical schools require a minimum of 3 years of pre-medical studies or in the life sciences in an accredited university (with a GPA of close to 4.0 - near perfect), a suitable GMAT score and letters of references. People with previous "other medical degrees" - particularly in alternative medicine (i.e. naturopathy, chiropractic, cosmetology, etc.) are not generally considered good candidates, although those with ACCREDITED engineering degrees and ACCREDITED Ph.D.'s in life sciences are welcomes. Naturally, alternative delivery degrees (i.e. on-line, correspondence, etc.) are frowned upon, such is the degree of conservatism in the medical fields.

There are universities in the Caribbean and in Eastern Europe that offers medical degrees, but they are often unaccredited and some are considered diploma mills ... I guess, here we go again.

Or this is just another annual stunt?

Sunday, March 05, 2006

Real Cancer Cures

In the last year or so, I personally have known of 3 people facing death due to cancer. Both HAD breast cancer and one HAD a tumour at the base of his brain. All 3 recovered.

The one with the brain tumour was just given a clean bill of health this past week. He had been through a 6-month regiment of radiation and chemotherapy. During his weekly therapy, I was with him practically every other day - driving him to and from the hospital, visited him at home, called him, etc. We are good friends (as are our spouses - his wife is also my personal physician) and we fish together every spring and summer. He is a VP of a large Canadian firm (with manufacturing facilities in China, and offices in Australia, Hong Kong, UK, Germany and the US), and his health insurance plan will only recognize allopathic treatments.

I saw - with my very own eyes - the treatments he was subjected to. 3 sets of radiation that went on for 2 weeks each time on alternate days. Chemotherapy on the intervening days. He was scanned, tested and poked hundreds of times during that 6 months period. He had to wear a stomach bag to get fed, and another device that dispenses pain-killers. I saw him loose weight, gained them back and loose them again as he struggled with his inability to eat, to swallow, to even talk. He is often lethargic from the toxic chemotherapy treatments and sun-burnt from the radiation.

There must be a team of 10-15 technicians, doctors, nurses, therapists that attended to him during this period, using the latest machines, research and medication.

Here is my question: Would someone with a dubious education like Jeffrey Chung be able to cure my friend from his brain tumour, as Jeffrey had once claimed through his website?

My friend, who is Chinese in heritage, did not immediately fall back on his traditional remedies as he damn well knows that he will be betting his life on real doctors (i.e. not with degrees via correspondence and unsupervised work, false professional/academic claims, and personal psychological issues such as gender-identity), real medical assistants (i.e. not some ladies in white lab coats) and real medical techniques (i.e. proven techniques that have been examined by others in a public manner, in certified medical facilities with real equipment).

Swallowing an over-priced herbal pill, and with no further medical observations, testing and monitoring, is NOT the path to fighting cancer. That is the path to make Jeffrey rich - a real scam - and the patient WILL succumb to his/her cancer. There is not alternative in alternative medicine.

Jeffrey should be jailed for such fraud.