Molly Burke

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1,048 appearances 2 recordings 2 series first heard Oct 2025 last heard 21 Dec

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The Checkup with Doctor Mike · She Doesn't Want To Cure Her Blindness | Molly Burke · 12 Oct 2025 podcast

It was huge for me.

For me, I did.

I had to.

Because that was the only door I saw as a possibility for the first 16 years of my life.

And the door I wanted to walk through for probably the first 20, 21 years.

So for me, I did have to shut that door and lock it completely in order to move forward.

That does not mean everybody does.

What I will say is I am not against a treatment that will stabilize.

I think the word cure is also misrepresentative a lot of the time.

And I think you could probably agree with that, that when we hear cure, we think Molly will see 2020.

We know that's very unlikely and that most cures are treatments that will slow progression, that will plateau progression, that will maybe improve slightly.

It is very unlikely in most cases that treatments are actually curing completely.

So when we say cure, it's really,

misleading, not only to disabled people, because I grew up thinking cure meant seeing.

That was the messaging that I was receiving.

I didn't understand that cure most likely meant more so a treatment of sorts.

And I think when we say cure to the average person, they think a paralyzed person will walk and have no disability.

They're not thinking a person with paralysis will get minor sensation back.

minor muscle strength that will allow them to stand for 10 seconds to transfer easier.

But that's really most likely what we're looking at with a lot of treatments, at least at this stage.

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