Tell Your Doctor

If you are reading this and you are a patient that has listened to audio tapes by Bernie Siegel, MD, or you have read and understand some of concepts set forth by Bernie and you would like to inform your doctor of the concepts, then you may want to ask you doctor to read this lesson and the apple tree lesson. As docs can be very busy, you may want to just print this out and hand it to your doctor.

If you are reading this and you are a doctor, your patient has just asked for your help in getting well in a little unusual way. Audio tapes by Bernie Siegel, MD, draw a connection between the mind and it’s role in helping people get well, Bernie calls this concept the BodyMind. I cannot do justice to Bernie or the BodyMind concept in a few paragraphs, so I would ask you to listen to the audio tape "Peace, Love and Miracles" by Bernie Siegel, MD. All I can testify to is I have a brain tumor, GBM - grade IV, and Bernie tapes have helped me. Most of my doctors are familiar with Bernie and embrace the concept of the mind helping in the healing process. As authority figures, my docs do not take away any tools I may have to help me get better as long as the tools or beliefs are not destructive or interfere with the treatment protocol. For example, I tend to agree with "Beating Cancer with Nutrition" by Patrick Quillin that states refined sugar feeds cancer cells.

After mentioning this concept to one of my doctors, I was told "That is ridiculous. If that were true, all we have to do is is stop eating refined sugar and there would be no cancer". His comment did not slow me down, but as an authority figure his comment could certainly take away someone's hope that not eating refined sugar is not worth the effort. By making a simple comment the doc has now perhaps replaced false hope with no hope. How would being off refined sugar hurt me or my treatment? In fact the practice may help me feel better. All the doc had to say was "OK, that practice may help some - the keyword being "may". Now he has not endorsed my sugar free concept nor has he taken it away from me as a tool that I believe may help me fight cancer.

I sincerely believe the time will be well spent on your part looking at Bernie.