Try and get that back to a more trusted place where you can believe, to some degree, what you read and see there. But that's a bigger problem than I can solve. If you were seeing a patient who was deciding whether to. Alternative treatments or conventional treatments. What would be the one thing you'd say to them? I get him to think about regret in the future . And just imagine three months down the line if you.
We chose not to have a conventional treatment that we thought would work very well. How would you feel if, say, the cancer becomes curable by that point in time, it because of waiting now that that might not be the cas; I've got people who waited and not had treatment, and it's been safe to do that. But I think trying to imagine yourselves later on. Would you regret not having had treatment this often? Quite a powerful emotion.
During this investigation, I've spoken to several cancer patients who told me that when they were feeling overwhelmed and afraid about their health, videos and posts sharing health misinformation could be appealing. This is one of the things I wanted to talk to Lizzo Reardon, the former cancer surgeon, about. She says that she didn't always understand the best way to respond to patients when they told her they were contemplating alternative therapies instead of following the medical advice that she was giving.
One in particular, she had surgery, but she didn't want radiotherapy because she thought that would cause cancer. She was going to go on a juice and retreat to France to stop it coming back. And I remember being angry with her.