FinallyRetired
Thinks s/he gets paid by the post
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I respect an individual's spirituality, whatever it may be, but a good friend went off the deep end and began visiting these weird spiritual guru healers overseas. You know the type: crystals, chants, hypnotism to cure everything from gout to cancer.
Of course, my friend got no better, but the healers were successful in extracting a great deal of money and making them dependent on repeated visits to themselves and other healers, some in the U.S. I guess there's nothing that can be done, since it's an uregulated business, and we're each responsible for our ourselves, but it's a real shame that these health scams go on.
It's ironic that if I wanted to provide legitimate medical services to a sick person, I would be required to have proper medical training. But if I wanted to provide hokey snake oil methods to the same sick person, that's OK.
Of course, my friend got no better, but the healers were successful in extracting a great deal of money and making them dependent on repeated visits to themselves and other healers, some in the U.S. I guess there's nothing that can be done, since it's an uregulated business, and we're each responsible for our ourselves, but it's a real shame that these health scams go on.
It's ironic that if I wanted to provide legitimate medical services to a sick person, I would be required to have proper medical training. But if I wanted to provide hokey snake oil methods to the same sick person, that's OK.