It doesn't seem too unlikely that she could have died in the exact same surprising way
in a hospital's psych ward.
(_Felix suspicious character from prehistoric caucasus, Wed 13 Feb 2008, 23:50, archived)

Is she's willing to accept them, hospitals can prescribe medicine.
And they're well aware of the risks on embolisms and can do things to prevent/treat them.
( my other username is a porsche , posting shit pictures so you don't have to, Wed 13 Feb 2008, 23:51, archived)

I think even in a hospital you can have a blood clot loose inside you which goes undetected
for 20 days until it abruptly kills you. Particularly if you're being treated for brain-wrongs rather than car crash injuries.
(_Felix suspicious character from prehistoric caucasus, Thu 14 Feb 2008, 0:01, archived)

It's possible, but I'm pretty confident there are tests.
I also expect they'd do something towards prevention, i.e. not forcing her to lie down in bed for several weeks.
And of course they're far better placed to treat her if anything goes wrong.
( my other username is a porsche , posting shit pictures so you don't have to, Thu 14 Feb 2008, 0:03, archived)

Evidently scientology should spend a larger part of its fabulous wealth employing resident medical staff.
There's got to be much better angles to attack scientology from than that, is all. Such as "it's stupid".
(_Felix suspicious character from prehistoric caucasus, Thu 14 Feb 2008, 0:10, archived)

I think telling their members to refuse medical treatment is quite a good angle to attack, actually.
Although it does obviously fall under the header of 'it's stupid'.
( my other username is a porsche , posting shit pictures so you don't have to, Thu 14 Feb 2008, 0:14, archived)

I thought it was only psychiatric treatment they avoided.

(_Felix suspicious character from prehistoric caucasus, Thu 14 Feb 2008, 0:18, archived)

I'm not sure, but even that seems a bit dodgy.
Our cult knows more than the accumulated knowledge of decades of psychological research.
Fuck clinical trials, we know what's best.
( my other username is a porsche , posting shit pictures so you don't have to, Thu 14 Feb 2008, 0:19, archived)

The thing about choosing to avoid psychiatrists, although a bit naive,
is a great deal more defensible than the thing about aliens dropping nuclear bombs in volcanoes, and machines that test your midichlorian levels, or whatever it is.
(_Felix suspicious character from prehistoric caucasus, Thu 14 Feb 2008, 0:27, archived)

Those beliefs in themselves don't hurt anyone.
Keeping someone away from proper treatment can.
( my other username is a porsche , posting shit pictures so you don't have to, Thu 14 Feb 2008, 0:29, archived)

It might have been nice to give the doctors a chance.

( gronkpan , a friend, Wed 13 Feb 2008, 23:56, archived)

They did have a genuine medical doctor attending to her.
I don't think this particular case was shockingly neglectful (but now I'm reading about the others).
(_Felix suspicious character from prehistoric caucasus, Thu 14 Feb 2008, 0:05, archived)

No, there was a medical doctor who was prescribing to her but didn't see her.
That's not attending.
( my other username is a porsche , posting shit pictures so you don't have to, Thu 14 Feb 2008, 0:11, archived)