11yo girl Dies - God Vs. Science, page 1/

reply to post by muzzleflash

Good for you! Never allow a doctor to give you or any of your family any medication unless and until they have explained the reason for the drug, the side effects(You're right, ALL DRUGS HAVE SIDE EFFECTS), and how long you or your family member will have to take it. Ask if there are any alternative treatments. What are the other options? (For example, with adult onset diabetes, a disorder that is often controlled with oral drugs, excercise, proper diet, and weight loss will often bring the blood sugar back under control. Of course you may have to take the oral med for a short time. The same goes for elevated cholesterol, and high blood pressure. In other words, get away from the computer and do something!

When you go to the pharmacy to pick up your medications, the pharmacist should review the meds with you, if it is something you have never taken before. (My pharmacist does this with me, and he knows me, knows I'm an RN, and that I know my drugs almost as well as he does.) Then, when you get home, get on the internet, and check for yourself. Be careful doing this. Avoid the drug company sites, but also avoid those sites which dispense nothing but horror stories. My suggestion would be medscape.com and a couple of others that actually give out decent information.
In response to parents who depend on prayer to heal their child of diabetes, or heart disease, or the common cold, I have this to say.
You, as an adult have the right to accept or refuse medical care based on your religious beliefs. But if there is a PROVEN TREATMENT available for a particular disease, which your child has, and you choose not to use it, then you are guilty of neligible homicide at the very least. If I was the prosecutor I would go for 1st degree murder. Why? Because God gave man a brain capable of accumulating great knowledge. Mankind has learned to treat a great number of diseases, and to actually cure some of them. Guess what? The knowledge to develope these treatments came the God you claim told you to pray for your child and withhold treatment. I believe you could have given your child insulin, and if God chose to heal her, then He would have done it.
To those of you who want to know if I have ever seen evidence of divine intervention, I will say that I have seen a few times that someone I thought was going to die totally screwed with my head (as well as the rest of the nurses) and recovered. Was it a miracle? As far as we were concerned it was. Especially when I ran into that person at Walmart a year later, and although they were still weak, they looked remarkably healthy.