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OT - Bit of a curly one - bringing herbs into Oz 10-Mar-2011 At 6:55:55 PM Cesca

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On 10/03/2011 Sabu wrote:
>There is a monumental amount of research required before anything is allowed
>to be tested on humans let alone approved for the general public. And
>this is for a very good reason.

Oh, how I wish this were true. If it were true, many people would not be disabled right now/have poor quality of life as a result of the side effects of medical procedures. And yes, I know, there's always a chance things can go wrong with surgeries...but some surgeries are known to have consistently high rates of adverse side effects, yet prospective patients are never told this pre-op and often only hear the horror stories of other patients by searching online (sometimes after their own surgery, when it's too late for the info to be helpful). I know this, because I helped set up a support group in NZ for people living with debilitating side effects from a surgery that is widely offered by surgeons in NZ, Oz, the US, Asia, South America, Canada, Europe, and backed by numerous medical insurers. There are many support groups worldwide for people living with the results of this supposedly 'safe' and 'miraculous' surgery.