I have long had the view that diabetes should be an easy thing to cure. Do a pancreas transplant. I figured there might be factors I don’t know which may make such solutions more complicated or risky or impossible than I realize, but I always figured my cynical assumption fit this lack of solution best: Pharmaceutical companies and other for-profit medical industries do not want the cash cow that is diabetes cured. Their desperation to hold onto income sources is more important than the comfort and well being of patients who are a captured market for the products and services. Manufacturers of diabetic products are the biggest donors to diabetic organizations. With their money to the charities comes their power over the charities. Their money via lobbyists and research gives power over the government and their agencies. any people, particularly doctors, are quick to call me cynical or paranoid.
My response is one of two old quotes about paranoia: "Even paranoids have real enemies" and "A paranoid is someone with all the facts at his disposal."
While worrying myself that a bad combination of probably separate digestive tract issues was diabetic kidney problem, I was perused a website:
http://www.netdoctor.co.uk/diseases/facts/diabetickidneydisease.htm
From this site I picked up an offhand quote at the very bottom of the article before references are listed,
"In some centres a transplant of the pancreas is done at the same time as the kidney transplant – removing the need for insulin or tablet treatment for diabetes."
So, they are already doing pancreas transplants. They are not doing them here in capitalist America, but a country with an evil "scourge" in medicine, a socialist system.
I’ve never found this information when looking for it directly. Finding it in such an offhand and almost accidental way certainly feeds my paranoia.
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