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Many serious diseases are not detectable in their early stages. When
symptoms do appear, the attempted cures may be painful, disabling or
mutilating and most certainly will be costly. If the patient endures the
toxicity of chemotherapy, or the disfigurement of surgery and radiation and
the treatment fails, then he and his family are left with the terrible
anxiety attendent to the continued presence and possible progression of a
devastating disease.

In this circumstance, the need for hope is all-powerful. It understandably
drives the patient and his family to seek some sort of "alternatives".
These desperate and vulnerable people become fair game to the medical
charlatans who offer "all natural, safe treatments that heal."

To the fearful patient, healing and curing are one and the same. A high
level of intelligence does not guarantee that the patient will recognize the
false promise implied by the use of the word "heal". In most cases,
questioning of the practitioner will reveal that the word "heal" is used in
a spiritual or metaphorical sense rather than a physical one. Charlatans
often claim that their therapy stimulates either the "immune system" or some
"innate" ability of the body to heal itself. Thus, the charlatan avoids
responsibility when the treatment fails by shifting responsibility for the
failure onto the patient - a despicable thing to do to someone already
facing the trauma of a devastating illness.

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