Re: Crit play3 - last one honest (now very long)

On Tue, 12 Sep 2006 14:27:44 -0500, "Suzanne Blom"
<sueblom@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:



The tourist thing is all very well--but where does one get the money to do
it?


That's why you have the web site that only the desperate and / or
credulous will come to, offering you large amounts of money for their
healings. And you get them to pay your way to wherever they are.

I've seen an article done by some skeptic about one of the 'healers'.
He checked on as many patients as he could find who'd given
testimonials. And an awful lot of it went:

He cured my cancer.

What kind of cancer was it?

Stomach cancer.

Can you show me the x-rays your doctor did before and after?

I didn't have x-rays. I don't go to doctors. I had pains and I
vomited funny stuff.

Then how do you know you had cancer?

About half of them would indignantly stop talking to him then. The
rest would explain that they had a friend or relative or lots of them
who'd had the same symptoms and died of cancer or simply say that
there was nothing else that could have caused the problem.

Many of the cases were ones that were impossible to verify as genuine
medical cases, even if the patients had seen an M.D. and gotten a
diagnosis. There are a certain amount of missed diagnoses even with
good doctors, unless extensive test are done. When no cancer is later
found, one can never be sure if the original M. D. diagnosis was
correct. There are cases of spontaneous remission, even where M.D.s
are totally accurate and all tests and biopsies done. That comes out
to: The patient got better but no one knows why.

And that's just cancer. If you get into infectious disease, subtle
hormone imbalances, weird parasites (flukes anyone? Spirochetes from
Lymes?) and especially the psychosomatic problems arising from them,
you've got a bonanza, because most doctors don't look for a lot of
those things or recognize them when they see them. The true
psychosomatic diseases are the real prime time for charlatans. The
patient feels awful, deals with the 'healer', feels better. What can
anyone say?


Every one of those self diagnosis errors, genuine medical errors and
spontaneous remissions will be telling everyone they know how
wonderful you are and happily sending you things you can put on your
site. This is assuming that you do nothing at all other than stay in
your home and live your normal life and only send them emails
promising them that you'll work on healing them from a distance and
have the same healing ability of the average termite. If you have
charisma and see them in person, you're set. If you want to be that
kind of charlatan.

It would be to the advantage of the real healer who doesn't want to
start a new religion and wants to keep a private life to pretend to be
that kind of charlatan. Since you would be able to really do healing,
your patient endorsements would be many and glowing. And you'd have
no problems as long as you paid your taxes to whatever country you
were working in and never broke any of the medical laws, such as (in
the US) diagnosing diseases and prescribing medicines and giving
medicine for the problem. There are ways around that last stuff, but
the real healer wouldn't have to bother. Tell them to eat lots of
kiwi fruit or watermelon and drink a glass of organic milk a day and
never tell the patient what disease he / she has. Let them tell you.
Let them pay you to travel and vacation and live. And heal as you go.
--

r.bc: vixen
Speaker to squirrels, willow watcher, etc..
Often taunted by trout. Almost entirely harmless. Really.

http://www.visi.com/~cyli
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