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| "Without the catalyst of love and caring, medicine becomes a mere manipulation of tissues, an orchestration of chemistry." |
| Conventional and holistic practitioners must work together in a compassionate way to help those afflicted with cancer, using any effective treatment available. With herbs, proper diet, and lifestyle guidelines to enhance each patient's vitality, we can create the best physical environment for patients to fight their cancers and potentiate their own innate healing abilities. |
| Quality of life is something rarely studied or even discussed when it comes to conventional cancer therapies and cancer patients. Many times the therapy itself diminishes the qualify of life. I believe it is time to weigh this in the decision-making process, especially with advanced cancer or those cancers for which there is little or no benefit to be derived from any invasive cancer therapy. Quality of life should also be considered when it comes to unnecessary invasive testing. Too often we make the mistake of thinking that modern medicine has all the answers. |
| When a patient comes to the last days of his physical life in a hospital, he is often drugged out of consciousness while family and loved ones look on helplessly and doctors reassure them that nothing more can be done. I feel strongly that what sick people need is loving careat home, whenever possible, surrounded by their own families and in their own beds; they need nourishing foods, like homemade soups and fresh juices; most of all, they need compassion. If I were sick and in my last days, this is what I would want rather than a last-ditch surgical procedure, or even worse, an experimental chemotherapy that might keep me alive for another few days so that I can lie in pain in a hospital bed. I think we need to look at the big picture when considering what course to follow. Most of all, we need to feel love for the human being who is ill and dying, and we need to pray. Through loving prayer comes clarity and peace. |
| I hope that this book will help you or your loved ones. I am thankful to God for giving me the grace to write this book. Works of love are a way to become closer to God; the more we help each other, the more we love God. We who work with cancer must keep in mind that we are only humble instruments and servants of the great Physician, and that love is the greatest healer of all. |
| Peace be to you. |
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