Ebola has arrived in the USA. But much more of a risk, serious life threatening illnesses may strike people at any time. Would you consider taking new untested drugs, like the Ebola patients have done here in America?
For a discussion about this, see my latest article in the Huffington Post http://www.huffingtonpost.com/cary-a-presant-md/ebola-and-life-threatenin_b_5891372.html .
You can develop potentially serious health conditions or illnesses. Good doctors develop excellent treatment plans for their patients, and you may get lots of information about tests, treatments and drugs you may need. But there is a possible problem in how you understand what the doctors and nurses tell you. In an excellent study http://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa1204410 J. Weeks and coauthors evaluated over 1100 patients with serious diagnoses of cancer. Between 69% and 81% of the patients…