I confidently affirm that the greater part of those who are supposed to have died of gout, have died of the medicine rather than the disease - a statement in which I am supported by observation.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
For humble individuals like myself, there is one poor comfort, which is this, viz. that gout, unlike any other disease, kills more rich men than poor, more wise men than simple.
What patients seek is not scientific knowledge that doctors hide, but existential authenticity each person must find on her own... the angst of facing mortality has no remedy in probability.
I've always been aware of mortality because I've always had ill health most of my life.
Gout produces calculus in the kidney... the patient has frequently to entertain the painful speculation as to whether gout or stone be the worst disease. Sometimes the stone, on passing, kills the patient, without waiting for the gout.
Of course, there are diseases of which people die.
You are not just about death and disease.
We can now diagnose diseases that haven't even manifested in the patient, and may not until the fifth decade of life - if at all.
Death is the cure for all diseases.
Illness and death are not optional. Patients have a right to determine how they approach them.
The best medicine I know for rheumatism is to thank the Lord that it ain't gout.