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Thank you, lotusbud, for your comments. Of course medical science deals in statistics and treatment protocols but we are individuals. In something such as Traditional Chinese Medicine, five people with what Western Medicine would call the same disease would have five different treatments because they are treating the whole person. Western medicine treats individual diseases. It is what modern science requires it to do. Double blind studies can never be used to validate, or invalidate TCM treatments for this very reason. Each form of medicine has it's strengths and each approach to science has it's merits.
We must remember that Francis Bacon invented Modern Science based on a series of assumptions that Modern Science itself cannot prove. We have to admit the power of modern science, but it is not the only way of seeing nature or science or medicine. Still the advances made possible by modern medical science are remarkable, but, as you point out, even within it's limits we are are on unsure ground for many treatment protocols, much less for what is right for any specific individual.
In 1971 I had what was then called aplastic anemia. The best any doctor gave me was a 50-50 chance of survival, but as an aunt of mine, who was also a physician, pointed out, my chances of survival were 100% or zero. MDS presents of the alternative of possible prolongation of life, and with that, the hope that modern medical science will develop greater knowledge and experience during that time.
I still wonder just how many cases there might be of spontaneous remission or of never to be diagnosed MDS that does not cause premature death. None of that is to take lightly the problem of really bad bone marrow results or of declining blood counts.
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