1999 - 2000 Archive
Program # 23
The claims about chelation therapy are dramatic and attention grabbing. With a few treatments you can cut your risk of heart attack by 80%, improve your cardiovascular function, reduce chest and leg pain. Provincial health plans don't cover it, yet clinics that perform chelation therapy are popping up across the country. So, is it a safe and effective alternative to bypass surgery? The American and Canadian Heart Associations certainly don't think so, but believers and those who've been successfully treated swear by it.
Maybe you've already made a living will. Maybe you've told family members that when you reach the end of your life, you don't want extraordinary measures taken to keep you alive. But when that time comes, it won't be you making the decision. It'll be your family, and they'll be influenced by doctors and nurses whose instincts are to keep people alive. Dr. Willy Molloy, a leading geriatrician, has just completed a study that looks at what happens when people are allowed to decide for themselves how they'll live and how they'll die. You know what's behind your doctor's credentials, but what about your nurse? Not all nurses are educated equally. And while they all have a role, Ellie Tescher says we're relying too much on the ones with the least training.
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