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...Haley spoke about his "shaggy-dog" technique: get the patient to make an absolute commitment to change, then guarantee a cure but do not tell the patient what it is for several weeks. "Once you postpone, you never lose them as patients," he said. "They have to find out what the cure is." One bulimic who ate in binges and threw up five to 25 times a day was told she would be cured if she gave the therapist a penny the first time she vomited and doubled the sum each time she threw up. Says Haley: "They quickly figure...
...mean to identify a syndrome, the symptoms of which Jeff Wise exemplifies: irresponsibility on the part of the journalist (avoiding doing the necessary background research to write cogently on an issue); loss of logic (note Wise's thought process: Diseases were dealt with poorly, doctors learned how to find cures, a new disease defies cure, so we should deal with disease defies cure, so we should deal with diseases poorly as we did in the first place, and then everything will be nice again and "our attitude will change"); and lack of creative thinking in general (Wise decides there...
...news prompted tabloid headlines proclaiming CANCER BREAKTHROUGH and led desperate patients around the country to deluge the NCI with requests for the new "cure." Such a reaction is clearly premature, warned Rosenberg (who was a spokesman for the team that treated President Reagan's colon cancer). "I am really anxious that this be kept in perspective," he said. "This is a promising first step in a new approach to use the body's own immune system against cancer. It is certainly not a cancer cure...
...reported last week were a promising opening shot on a new part of the cancer battlefield. Says Rauscher: "We didn't see such results in most of the early chemotherapeutic drugs" two decades ago. But cancer experts unanimously emphasize that the new treatment is nowhere close to being a cure. "We have patients; we have responses," said Rosenberg. "But we're not yet where we want...
...well. . . they're working on a cure...