Comments by "Johanna S. L. Brushane" (@johannas.l.brushane2518) on "The Doctor Who Gave Up Drugs (Medical Documentary) | Real Stories" video.

@warrenkoubeh8831 Nah, in Sweden the people who are diagnosed with diabetes are forwarded to nutritionists.
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@user-ub8oi7oh3r And a lot of illneses doesn't have a cure for yet, and nor do they know qexactly what causes it.
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That is a bit too simplified for my ethical taste. Treating symptoms is sometimes what's available. A lot of conditions have similar symptoms and the correct diagnosis are being determined by excluding them one by one by see whether they respond to specific treatments. If the symptom is severe pain and the time to treatment is prospected to only be possible (if ever, there are a lot of fairly common illnesses that there isn't a cure for as of today) in some time in the future. Some people may believe that severe rhematoid artritis and such can be cured if they joined the Scientologists, though otherwise relieving problems of the symptoms can be done and thereby improve lifequality despite there is no true cure for that autoimmune disease an nor do they know exactly what causes the illness.
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