| A MAN WHOSE lungs are filled with cancer is sent home to die, hav- ing been told that medicine can do nothing for him. Six months later he reappears in his doctor s office, tumor free. A young woman diabetic, a heavy smokernlies unconscious in a coronary care unit following a bad heart attack. Her doctor anguishes over the fact that her cardiac function is rapidly declining and he is powerless to save her. But the next morning she is awake and talking, clearly on the way to recovery. A neurosurgeon tells grieving parents that their son, who is in a coma following a motorcycle accident and severe head injury, will never regain consciousness. The son is now fine. Most doctors I know have one or two stories of this sort, stories of spontaneous healing. You will uncover many more of them if you seek them out, yet few medical researchers do. To most doctors, thei stories are just stories, nor taken seriously, not studied, not looked toii as sources of information about the body s potential to repair itself. Meanwhile, modern medicine has become so expensive that it is straining the economies of many developed nations and putting itself beyond the reach of much of the world s population. In many coun- tries politicians argue about how to pay for health care, unaware that a philosophical debate about the very nature of health care has been ~ ongoing throughout history. Doctors believe that health requires out- ~side intervention of one sort or another, while proponents of natural ~ ~ygiene maintain that health results from living in harmony with nat- ~ral law. In ancient Greece, doctors worked under the patronage of |
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