If it wasn't for medications, my mother would've been dead a long time ago.
If it wasn't for surgery, BOTH of my parents, as well as pretty much everyone in my immediate family would have been dead a long time ago. Hell, I and my brother would have died the day we were born!
I hate assholes like this. For some reason it reminds me of those guys my brother brought home from a church he had started attending. They laid hands on my mom and tried to claim they had healed her of her epilepsy.