User talk:Karthik Sarma

Dear Mr Sarma I have been closely following the patient case of Laura Hymas, 25-year old mum who was diagnosed with aggressive brain cancer in Dec 2010 and told by doctors in UK that her illness is terminal with outlook of 6-12 months. However after commencing the treatment in the Dr Burzynski clinic her tumour has been steadily decreasing in size with the latest progress if 36% reduction since the MRI scan 6 weeks earlier. Although her treatment is far from over and anything could happen along the way, the results so far are clearly indicating that there is more then just 'false hope' that is provided by the treatment! I would urge sceptics like yourself to get your information right and acknowledge not just criticism but also success. This Wikipedia article is strongly biased against the work of the clinic and Dr Burzynski himself and should be sufficiently reviewed by Wikipedia as in it's current state is not acknowledging the positive results achieved by treatment so far. Maya marsh (talk) 02:26, 4 December 2011 (UTC)

Maya - I appreciate your concern about the possibility that the treatment may work. However, the truth is that I could grind up a rock and claim that it is a cure for cancer. I could then administer the ground-up rock to ten thousand people with incurable cancer. Of this people, 2 or 3 will experience a miraculous recovery, and then I could claim that the rock cured them! The truth, though, is that when medical professionals give you a prognosis, they are doing that based on their experience. If they have treated 1000 people with a similar illness and 800 of them have died between 6-12 months, that is what they will tell you because it is the most likely outcome. However, the other 200 might have died sooner or might have never died at all -- cancer is a truly mysterious illness and medical science freely admits that we do not understand very much about it. Doctors do their best, but sometimes they are wrong. In this particular case, the way to know for sure if the drug works or does not work is to run something called a 'clinical trial.' This experiment has the ability to decide with a high degree of confidence whether or not a drug actually works. Dr. Burzynski has at first repeatedly refused to share his own data or to run a public clinical trial. Recently, he finally asked for permissions to run a clinical trial, but the trial is not public and the the investigators are all people affiliated with Dr. Burzynski! The fact is that there is absolutely no reliable evidence that say that antineoplastons work, and a lot of reliable evidence to show that it doesn't. There is no giant conspiracy of doctors trying to suppress him -- if there were, why wouldn't they secretly give their loved ones with terminal cancer the drug if it worked? Karthik Sarma (talk) 16:17, 4 December 2011 (UTC)

Karthik, I would like to inform you that modern allopathic medicine is the 3rd leading cause of death in the United States: http://jama.ama-assn.org/content/284/4/483, http://www.health-care-reform.net/causedeath.htm — Preceding unsigned comment added by Pottinger's cats (talk • contribs) 10:56, 14 January 2012 (UTC)

Though I imagine you're not going to read this, the interested viewer might want to note that this is a falsehood -- though it *is* true that physicians do make mistakes, and we in the field absolutely have a responsibility to continue to work even harder to prevent them. What *is* true from that particular article is that of patients who are hospitalized already (and so are likely to be very sick), the third most frequent *immediate* cause of death has to do with physician-directed care. This is different from *true* cause of death, as it does not consider what might have happened to the patient if he or she *hadn't* been intervened upon. For example, if someone's only hope is a very risky surgery, it is not truly fair to say that the surgeon killed the patient if the surgery is not a success. Karthik Sarma (talk) 03:32, 1 February 2012 (UTC)

Help us to improve ujjwal patni page

Dear Mr Karthik sharma,

Greetings

I am also new to wikipedia and currently working on the page of ujjwal patni. We are almost at the verge of edit war because the other contributor is denying most of the links, not accepting versions of india's leading hindi newspapers. Can you help us top bring that page in right shape.

Dr Anay Jain — Preceding unsigned comment added by Anay jain (talk • contribs) 07:19, 23 April 2012 (UTC)

Congrats...

...on getting a piece on the front page on your first try! I hope we'll see more from you in the future. Cheers, Khazar2 (talk) 03:56, 6 August 2012 (UTC)

ITN for Ebola virus disease

Thanks for keeping Wikipedia up to date. -Zanhe (talk) 19:21, 6 August 2012 (UTC)