Would you trust medicine that a Doctor prescribes, even if it causes you pain and might even give you the illness you're trying to fight against?

And there's a chance that it might not even actually work for you but there's no way to tell and no one knows what the long term side effects could be?

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Elessar · 26-30, M

Depends on the chance and the disease. If the disease had 4.0% changes of sending me to the hospital, ~25.0% of becoming chronic, or maybe the disease is even new and we don't know the long term complications, and the cure only 1:100,000 chances of causing important issues (after more than one year of observation), ~60% effectiveness against diagnosis of said disease but also 96% effectiveness at preventing hospitalization, then yeah, give me the cure. Between two unknowns, I'll pick the one that has known higher chances of being beneficial.

All the numbers and scenarios are of course purely hypothetical, like the scenario in the post.