Shouldn't terminal patients be allowed to die using the snake oil of their choosing? Doesn't matter what medicine you take (or don't take), ultimately it's God who decides if and when a person will die.
Remember, even Steve Jobs bought into snakeoil for a while, trying alternative medicine. Not sure what form it took, other than a "special diet".
I'm not so much objecting to people seeking the healing methods of their choice, as I am to the deception offered to desperate people looking for something, anything, to extend their lives some more. The FDA, from what I'm reading, simply looks for a reasonable chance that it will help more than harm. When I say "snakeoil", I'm referring more to the deception, where the offerer knows darn well it won't help, but can convince the patient to spend oodles of money on it, ripping them from their family and such.
You see similar things with the parents who are shoving bleach up their children's bottoms in the hope of curing autism.
Not likely. The doctors would not be obligated to supply a drug just because a dying cancer patient requested it.
They'd just shop around until they found one.
Well, if God is real, then God makes the call whether or not the patient believes in God.
that is an interesting theory.