Over the centuries, medical prescriptions included animal dung, lizard blood, frog sperm, crab eyes, and countless potentially deadly substances. Patients actually got well on these and hundreds of other useless and dangerous substances. The reason patients recovered was because what they were actually being administered was hope and an expectation of getting well. Surprisingly often, when the patient trusts the physician and the physician believes in the treatment, the patient […]
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Video: Hope Helps Kill Cancer
March 8, 2016 at 9:00 am
In a large study of oncologists, the doctors were all asked what single attribute among all the cancer patients they had ever treated, was most strongly a contributor to the patients’ recoveries from cancer. The patients had a wide variety of types of cancer. Yet, ninety percent of the queried oncologists reported that the most […]
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