This treatment seems to worth looking at more closely. Does anybody want to guess what Drug X is? To narrow things down a bit, Drug X is not homeopathy, acupuncture, epinephrine, amiodarone, lidocaine, bretylium, magnesium, atropine, or sodium bicarbonate. Click on the image to make it larger. I believe that this drug was used only after other treatments had failed, but I could be wrong. Even if you were to remove the 4 not quite dead yet patients, all of whom survived, you only drop from a 59% survival rate to a 50% survival rate. Not bad. Any ideas? Any desire to study this as an alternative to the alternative medicine treatments listed above? Maybe Drug X would not work, when examined in large enough randomized placebo-controlled double-blinded studies, but Drug X isn’t likely to do any worse than what we are already using. .

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