| I've worked as a therapist for about 30 years now, | | | | alternative cancer treatments that involve everything |
| and in that time I've seen all kinds of clients with all | | | | from herbs, to diets, to fasts, to so-called healing |
| kinds of issues. I've worked with people in abusive | | | | touch. There is even an alternative cancer treatment |
| relationships - both the abusers and the abused. I've | | | | that involves dream interpretation. They claim that if |
| worked with drug dependent patients who are | | | | you know the meaning of your dreams, the cancer |
| constantly struggling with the danger of relapsing. I | | | | will go away. |
| have worked with many delusional, or even psychotic | | | | I find all this alternative lung cancer treatment stuff |
| patients, and once or twice have even been afraid | | | | to be revolting. Of course it is good to keep hope |
| for my life. But for me the most difficult (to say | | | | with the dying, but all this alternative cancer |
| nothing of heartbreaking) patients to work with are | | | | treatment seems to just exploit them for profit while |
| those who have been diagnosed with a terminal | | | | giving them no real chance of recovery. I guess I |
| disease. | | | | have some colleagues that see things quite |
| When you start looking into alternative medicine, you | | | | differently. I know an internist, for example, who |
| have probably reached the end of your rope. One of | | | | believes wholeheartedly in some of the alternative |
| my patients, we will call her Mary, has been | | | | cancer treatments. He believes that more research |
| diagnosed with lung cancer. Everything that she has | | | | needs to be done, but he claims that at least one |
| tried has failed, and the doctors have given her a | | | | form of herbal alternative cancer treatment offers |
| year or less to live. She has been looking into | | | | great hope of recovery in some cases. I don't know. |
| alternative cancer treatment. Now, for every possible | | | | I hope that he is right, but I think that this is just |
| crackpot alternative cancer treatment that you can | | | | wishful thinking. The fact is that, as a doctor, he |
| imagine, there are probably two or three in reality. | | | | wants to do everything that he can to make sure |
| There is even an organization - I think it is called the | | | | that his patients do well. Sometimes he has such a |
| alternative cancer treatment instituted or something | | | | strong desire to believe that it compromises his ability |
| like that - that is run by all these crackpot schemes | | | | to act as a scientist. |
| to exploit the hope of dying people. There are | | | | |