Modern medicine is not going to cure patients - that is not profitable
to have only healthy peoples around.
That is worldwide problem now.

woods and path - wrong and right ways
see here:
http://www.infodiags.com/doc/essay/e20080501.html?#

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Variant #2 The shortcut (Panacea)

I am an afraid of roads. I have strong feet and I am wearing my
helmet, thus, I am choosing a shortcut. Very well, oh, I have
forgotten the trees, well, that’s all right. Ten yards is a normal
flight, twenty yards - it is getting dark. Now I see the light hearing
buzz in my ears. My poor bicycle with the front wheel wobbling. Now I
don’t want this forest anymore. I’d better leave it alone, though I
will have to carry my bicycle and repair it afterwards.

From medical point of view. My finger keeps aching. All right, I will
call the doctor. He came, examined it for a long time for some reason
I don’t know, felt it. Then felt my pulse, even did bloodletting.
However, my finger didn’t stop aching and moreover, I started to feel
sick all the time and the cut spot doesn’t heal…

Conclusion. This method was popular until 17 century but then it was
replaced with more progressive and purposeful approaches. Yet, it is
still used in that way by some limited people for relatively honest
money-cheating from believers.
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