PRESCRIPTION for Living
by Bernie Siegel, MD
Remarkable Recoveries
GOT BELLY FAT?
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he reason that medicine has not explored the issue of self
families are sitting next to them.
healing is that we either give credit to the treatment or re-
While women say, “I can’t die
fer to the healings as miracles or spontaneous remissions.
till you’re all married and out of
But a lot can be learned about survival behavior by talking to
the house.” She died of her cancer twenty three years later
those patients who experienced “miracles”.
when her ninth kid left home. She, like the men, needed to ATTEND
Psychologist Bruno Klopfer, back in the 1940’s, was given
live an authentic life and not just a role as the wage earner or
24 personality profiles of cancer patients and correctly pre-
mother. Recent studies show how loneliness affects the genes
dicted 19 times who would have a fast or slow growing can-
that control immune function and can lead to cancer, infec-
tions and autoimmune diseases.
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cer. In one case he couldn’t decide and his predictions were
wrong four times. Yet when a patient enters a doctor’s office
I was involved in several cases of remarkable recoveries.
and is given a diagnosis, he is not given a list of questions to
One was a woman who lived in North Carolina and was told
determine his personality profile or his likelihood of being a
by her doctor that going to the hospital for chemotherapy was
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long-term survivor.
a waste of time and energy as she was going to die anyway of
Doctors are not trained to communicate with patients and
cancer. Her niece was caring for my father-in-law at the time
so our words can kill or cure. Authority figures are hypnotic
and without asking me told her aunt, “Doctor Siegel helps
but some doctors can be hypnotic in a negative way, induc-
people to get well all the time. So, come up here to Connecti-
ing side effects and sometimes an earlier death by referring
cut.”
When she arrived and I was called, I admitted her to the
to learn how to
to statistics and eliminating hope. Statistics do not apply to
individuals and there is no false hope.
hospital and found she had leukemia. As a surgeon I had noth-
ing to offer her, so I called an oncologist to see her. He basi-
trigger the
Psychiatrist George Solomon, when working with AIDS
patients early in the epidemic, came up with eight questions
cally said what her doctor had said but started chemotherapy
to give her some hope. She responded dramatically and went
Six Fat Burning Homones.
that define an Immune Competent Personality. He said that
from the questions one could predict who would be a long
into complete remission. Her niece later told me she went
term survivor.
home and was driving her doctor crazy, and that she knew she Learn what it takes to burn away fat
Psychiatrist Caroline Thomas, at Johns Hopkins had medi-
would get well when I sat on her bed and hugged her.
cal students fill out a personality profile and draw pictures of
Jordan Fieldman was a Harvard medical student who de-
around the belly, hips and thighs.
themselves. From the profile and drawings she found a con-
veloped visual problems many years ago and was diagnosed
nection with diseases they developed later in life and could
with an aggressive brain tumor. He undergoes surgery and
Learn about the influence of food and
predict what disease they were likely to get and the part of the
wakes up blind and is told he will be blind for the few months
body likely to be involved from their drawings. Even she was
he has left to live. A week later his sight returned and he went
exercise over Fat-Burning Hormones.
surprised to find a correlation with cancer too.
to the medical library to research his disease. He said every
Our bodies love us but if we do not love them in return,
book said recurrence is inevitable and death occurs within a
they turn on us. There are more suicides and serious illnesses
year. Now a good student would have gone home and died
on Mondays than on any other day of the week. That is no
but Jordan was not a good student. He said, “How dare they
coincidence. Our relationships play an enormous part in mak-
say inevitable?”
ing our lives meaningful and helping us to survive. As W. H.
Jordan also suffered from ulcerative colitis and noticed
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Auden wrote about cancer in the poem, Miss Gee, a doctor
that when he decided to change his lifestyle and not die of a
says to his wife, “Cancer’s a funny thing. Childless women get
brain tumor that his colitis also responded. He combined tra-
it and men when they retire. It’s as if there had to be an outlet
ditional medical therapy with other modalities and his tumor
for their foiled creative fire.” Jungian therapists call it growth
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gone wrong.
I also had a patient with a pancreatic cancer who went
Women live longer than men with the same cancers. Mar-
home to die and returned to the office with no palpable tumor
ried men live longer than single men with the same cancers.
mass and feeling well. Her comment, “I went home and left
my troubles to God.” Likewise, Susan Duffy was diagnosed
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Does that make it remarkable?
It is obvious from many studies that a reason for living
with Scleroderma decades ago and told what would happen
also relates to the will to live and survival. I hear men say, “I
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can’t work anymore. What’s the point of living?” while their
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