Word: doctor
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...appeal of alternative healers and their uncommon cures is hardly new. Nationwide, health-care consumers spend nearly $14 billion a year for medical treatments rarely offered by the family doctor. Deepak Chopra, the India-born endocrinologist, spiritualist and publishing juggernaut, has enjoyed perennial best-seller status since the 1993 publication of Ageless Body, Timeless Mind. Other author-healers, from Dr. Bernie Siegel to Marianne Williamson, have enriched themselves and their publishers by offering a buffet of alternative approaches that range from meditation and visualization to the curative powers of love and positive thinking...
...advancing case of cancer, the mother had been given three months to live--until, in desperation, she began listening to Weil's tapes and following his advice. That was two years ago, and her disease is in complete remission. Another woman reports that she was once told by her doctor that she had just months to live. She began experimenting with alternative treatments, and she reports with perhaps a dollop too much satisfaction, "It's four years later, that doctor is dead, and I'm still going strong...
...same charges in the death of their 16-year-old daughter Shannon, who fell into a diabetic coma after four days of dehydration and nausea, dying on June 21, 1995. The Nixons, members of a tiny sect called the Faith Tabernacle Congregation, had refused to call a doctor on both occasions, convinced that all disease comes from the devil and that only God can cure illness. Charles Nixon, the dead children's grandfather and the pastor of Altoona's 140-member Faith Tabernacle congregation, clarified the sect's tenet: "We do not believe in 'faith healing.' We believe in 'divine...
...teenager weighed only 100 lbs. More significantly, she was constantly thirsty. By June 18, Shannon was complaining of weakness and dizziness and decided to stay home from her job at her father's storm-door company. Though she was worried about her health, the thought of calling a doctor never occurred to Shannon. Instead she asked to be "anointed," a procedure the church reserves for extremely serious illnesses. The day after, she felt better and was prepared to pass the whole thing off as little more than the flu. But by evening, she felt sick again and asked...
...such mothers, but if medicine can help make it so, why not greet them with the same joy accorded Tony Randall, who appeared on David Letterman the same day news about the California mother broke. He had just had his first child at 77, without any fear that a doctor could tell...