They claim they can cure better than doctors. But what happens when they fail to come through on the deal. Shouldn't they be liable for emotional damage done to the patient?
Also, some of that stuff gets pretty rough, from what I've seen. What if they further injure the patient?
If they want to be healers, shouldn't they be subject to the consequences of being a bad one?
I Believe! -- Actually, yes. I ask this question because my friend Jess was at a Pentecostal church a few weeks ago and they told her they would heal her endometriosis. Instead, the forcibly pushed her to the ground, pushed her forehead to the point where her neck hurt, and pushed all around her stomach area causing her severe pain.
Jeanmarie
Even I don't believe in them.
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Hippie [Atheati Splinter Cell]
You ever heard the story of the exorcism of Emily Rose?
Super Nintendo Chalmers
I believe the UK has recently introduced a law that lets people sue when astrologers/psychics...etc fail at providing whatever the customer was promised. This is probably for cases that fall short of medical malpractice though.
EmanC
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Old guy
You can not deny the placebo effect. It has the scientific data that indicates as high as 70 to 90 percent effective rates.
Dr. Herbert Benson, who spent his career working in Harvard Medical Schools' teaching hospitals, is one of a handful of medical investigators who established the scientific field recognized today a mind/body medicine. Associate professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School, he founded Harvard's Mind/Body Medical Institute at Boston's Deaconess Hospital. Observing how patients got better-or didn't- he became convinced that:
"our bodies are wired to benefit from exercising not only our muscles but our rich inner, human core - our beliefs, values, thoughts, and feelings. I was reluctant to explore these factors because philosophers and scientists have, through the ages, considered them intangible and unmeasurable, again and again, my patients' progress and recoveries often seemed to hinge upon their spirit and will to live. And I could not shake the sense I had that the human mind - and beliefs we so often associate with the human soul - had physical manifestations."
vérité
If they are legally a doctor, and giving official medical care... then yes they're liable.
However, I think most of them aren't technically doctors... so you're on your own if you use them.
I Believe!
Do you have a case? Can you bring forth one person who did NOT get healed by Faith? If not what is it too you? I can show you far more families who buried their loved ones through a failure of SCIENCE than I can who trusted and where let down by God.
My mother, Grandfather and Grandmother all where victims of the failures of Dr.s and Science. In each case, the Dr. 'buried' their mistakes.
Grim Jack Rebooted
Christianity thrives on the denial of personal responsibility.
Why should this be any different.
rp
you know... I don't have a problem with a priest, pastor, or friend laying their hands to pray on me or with me for an illness. I have done it several times. I do have a problem when it gets violent.
I know that sometimes when we pray and ask for healing, sometimes it is a spiritual healing and sometimes the answer is no.
They shouldn't have pushed your friend to the ground!
philosophyangel
IF faith healers make claims that can be construed as medical claims by the US Federal Drug Administration, they can be prosecuted. For this reason, many "healers" and purveyors of alternative cures for cancer, AIDS, and other ills, practice outside of the US or else are very careful about how they word things in their literature. Many studies have shown that although persons who get involved in these things often feel better for a time , most people die of their disease its complications (or from its alternative treatment). Many diseases--such as those presenting to faith healers--are psychosomatic. Diseases that can be psychosomatic include seizures (30% of persons seeking medical treatment for seizures actually have psychogenic --not true epileptic--seizures), paralysis, blindness, muteness, and pain syndromes.
Some studies of "therapeutic touch," which is like the Christian idea of laying on of hands (and like Reiki, the fancy history of which is pseudohistory, pranic healing and various spin-offs) show that it is beneficial when used in combination with real medical treatment. It does seem to help improve healing because it probably helps the emotional disposition and thus the immune system of the patient. |There *may* be a transpersonal effect on the bioelectromagnetic field but it is not a substitution for medical treatment.
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