You were given the power to cure ONLY 3 diseases/conditions, which would they be? This was hard.

- Cancer
- Mentally Challenged
- Blindness

I left off diseases that were preventable but it was really hard to leave off HIV/AIDS. Paralysis was another toughy to leave off as was Hypertension and Diabetes.

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[Edited 6/30/07 9:00am]

AIDS
MS
MND

Spookymuffin said:

What's MND?

Afronomical said:

Motor Neurone Disease.

Not much fun.

Spookymuffin said:

Ah, ok.

Afronomical said:

retardation is not disease it is 99.9% due to malpractice of doctors and can we use words like "physically challenged of handicapped" please because i do find that word Offensive due to the fact i had a handicapped sister who was mywhole universe and left me at age 12 due to her Cerebral palsy. now the ones i would cure

Hiv/Aids ( it took my uncle)
Diabetes ( took my father away)
Cancer

Cancer
Alzheimers
Stupidity

mdiver said:

i agree, plus Aids, of course.

IAintTheOne said:

But "Physically Challenged" could mean a lot of different conditions and diseases, I wanted to focus on retardation, so what's the correct word for solely that?

Afronomical said:

Handicapped would be the correct term and even more so that R word is never used that is a label placed on those who are considered "abnormal" by the masses of those who claim they are "normal"

IAintTheOne said:

Ok, so how about "Mentally Challenged"? That sounds about right.

Afronomical said:

i would use handicapped.but i see where you're coming from

Cancer
Diabetes
HIV/AIDS

Paralysis and blindness aren't diseases either, they're effects of other diseases/injuries. And a HUGE co-sign to what Finess said. I often think of your sister.

Mine: HIV/AIDS
Cancer
Chronic Obstructive Lund Disease (not actually sure what it's called in English, nicknamed "smoker's disease" here... my mom has it.

Teacher said:

That's why I said diseases/conditions.

Cancer

HIV

Muscular Dystrophy



and how about "Persons with mental disabilities" -

Rhondab said:

That works as well.

Cancer
HIV
The Org

Afronomical said:

Umm, well you edited that after I posted. Not my fault.

I think the term most health providers use for "mentally challenged" now is developmentally delayed or developmentally disabled but alot of Dr.s stil use the diagnosis of mild MR, moderate MR and severe MR at this hospital I work at.

Afronomical said:

the rule is person first, disease second.....so its "persons living with HIV", "persons with a physical disability", etc. etc.

Cancer
AIDS
Diabetes

Too many people have died from the above-mentioned diseases.

Teacher said:

No, I didn't. The edit I did was already there before you even posted. Go check. My edit was at 9:00am - your post was at 9:20am. Now unless I have the codes to the Org that would make it pretty impossible for me to be able to change the time stamp eh?

Anyway, FYI, the edit was changing "retardation" to "mentally challenged".
[Edited 6/30/07 9:51am]

irrisistableB said:

Oh ok, thanks.

Rhondab said:

Wow, I never knew that. That does make sense then. Thanks for that info.

psychodelicide said:

Damn good point. Now it makes me rethink my 3. See how hard this is?

Afronomical said:

It's VERY hard.

Cancer
Aids/HIV
and whatever part of the brain that controls addictions..IE: alcoholism,medications and such as that..

Afronomical said:

What about the term P used: "Mentally Alternative"

cancer
autism
alzeimer's