Cancer, the third leading cause of death, is two diseases: a curable one, even with some disabilities, where everyone is happy and a deadly one, where even the doctors turn their back and care less. If you are lucky, the health care system is with you, if not you are on your own and the clock is ticking backwards. The official therapy for the second case is paliative care but it involves a wide variety of measures.
- a complex interaction between hundreds of genes, which is just called 'bad luck' due its unknown nature
- impartial immunosuppression due to stress, lack of sleep or the hundreds of other external factors. (Without the cancer fighting immune system we would get a cancer very fast, though slower than fatal infections)
The first is barely recognizable and therefore non modifiable. We cam measure and manage only the second.
Attention deficit is a symptom that is caused by almost any mental and somatic disease. ADHD is a diagnosis after any other disease is thoroughly excluded and therefore is much less common than the symptom.
Any mental issue, symptom or disease lie on a spectrum, in terms of quality and severity. Psychiatric diagnoses are overlapping in more than 50% often making a single diagnosis incomplete.
In Greece the postwar generation was born in poverty after WWII and a civil war. But they created wealth, enough to live in relative luxury: multiple homes, ample available income and free time, holidays around the world. If you are willing to live, you will in the same generation. The current generation pays the cost of that expansion and that is a classic economic lesson.
This is an amazing endeavour for a child but I am sceptical about the transfer of this dexterity to real life achievements and eventually happiness. My son was obsesssed at that age with LEGO, making his own sets and uploading them to public repos, and now at 11 yo all he wants is to be a soccer player with no interest in any intellectual activity.
Back and shoulder surgery contra/indications must pass through an AND gate. Appropriate age, symptoms, duration, no response to drugs, specific target in the MRI. If one fails, it is contraindicated, which happens in 95-99%, at least for my patients.
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