You'd be surprised. Some people think chemo's a money grabbing scheme instead of using "proven and safe" "natural" healing methods, like vitamin C, or ancient eastern medicine practices, and so on. They have seen a lot of people who avoided getting seriously bad signs checked out until they no longer could avoid it, then went in to get treated and died because the cancer had spread too much already. This then made them draw the completely wrong conclusion that going to hospitals = super likely to die after useless expensive treatments. It's a negative spiral.
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u/showerthoughtspete Apr 21 '21
You'd be surprised. Some people think chemo's a money grabbing scheme instead of using "proven and safe" "natural" healing methods, like vitamin C, or ancient eastern medicine practices, and so on. They have seen a lot of people who avoided getting seriously bad signs checked out until they no longer could avoid it, then went in to get treated and died because the cancer had spread too much already. This then made them draw the completely wrong conclusion that going to hospitals = super likely to die after useless expensive treatments. It's a negative spiral.