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Comment by rsheridan6 | Hacker News Reader

It says in the about page

>Colin Rose MD PhD, Cardiologist, Associate Professor of Medicine, McGill University

And there are questions about whether CABG really reduces mortality or not.

As for Zamboni's procedure, I was psyched about it until I read Rose's debunking, and then some posts in a forum for MS patients by someone who had the surgery and is still having problems with MS. I'm not going to say for sure that it's BS, but I'm skeptical.

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I read the original article from The Globe and Mail with much interest the first time it appeared on HN. I have now also read Colin Rose's assessment. Obviously it's pretty early days and I am all for being cautious and skeptical. I don't wish to submit a person I care about to an unproven procedure whose possible risks I know very little of. But to brand Zamboni as some kind of backwards witch doctor and call for no further investigation to even take place into this possible avenue of treatment seems beyond the pale to me. Surely this attitude must come from people who have not been personally affected by MS and/or have not had to watch someone they care about suffer from its bizarre, seemingly random and quality of life destroying symptoms.

I would be very interested in any further links you could provide in relation to the Zamboni treatment (e.g. you mention a discussion on a forum) either for or against.

As a doc, the more I read of Colin Rose's blog, the more I agree him. The more I read about Zamboni, the less I agree with him.

Huh - his about page must have changed - or been fixed. All that was there when I looked was a listing of essays.

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