I think even in a hospital you can have a blood clot loose inside you which goes undetected
for 20 days until it abruptly kills you. Particularly if you're being treated for brain-wrongs rather than car crash injuries.
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_Felix gave Postbear crabs, Thu 14 Feb 2008, 0:01,
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It's possible, but I'm pretty confident there are tests.
I also expect they'd do something towards prevention, i.e. not forcing her to lie down in bed for several weeks.
And of course they're far better placed to treat her if anything goes wrong.
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my other username is a porsche , posting shit pictures so you don't have to, Thu 14 Feb 2008, 0:03,
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Evidently scientology should spend a larger part of its fabulous wealth employing resident medical staff.
There's got to be much better angles to attack scientology from than that, is all. Such as "it's stupid".
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_Felix gave Postbear crabs, Thu 14 Feb 2008, 0:10,
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I think telling their members to refuse medical treatment is quite a good angle to attack, actually.
Although it does obviously fall under the header of 'it's stupid'.
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my other username is a porsche , posting shit pictures so you don't have to, Thu 14 Feb 2008, 0:14,
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I'm not sure, but even that seems a bit dodgy.
Our cult knows more than the accumulated knowledge of decades of psychological research.
Fuck clinical trials, we know what's best.
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my other username is a porsche , posting shit pictures so you don't have to, Thu 14 Feb 2008, 0:19,
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The thing about choosing to avoid psychiatrists, although a bit naive,
is a great deal more defensible than the thing about aliens dropping nuclear bombs in volcanoes, and machines that test your midichlorian levels, or whatever it is.
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_Felix gave Postbear crabs, Thu 14 Feb 2008, 0:27,
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Those beliefs in themselves don't hurt anyone.
Keeping someone away from proper treatment can.
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my other username is a porsche , posting shit pictures so you don't have to, Thu 14 Feb 2008, 0:29,
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