Can faith healers be sued for medical malpractice?
IF faith healers make claims that can be construed as medical claims by the US Federal Drug Administration, they can be prosecuted. For this reason, many “healers” and purveyors of alternative cures for cancer, AIDS, and other ills, practice outside of the US or else are very careful about how they word things in their literature. Many studies have shown that although persons who get involved in these things often feel better for a time , most people die of their disease its complications (or from its alternative treatment). Many diseases–such as those presenting to faith healers–are psychosomatic. Diseases that can be psychosomatic include seizures (30% of persons seeking medical treatment for seizures actually have psychogenic –not true epileptic–seizures), paralysis, blindness, muteness, and pain syndromes. Some studies of “therapeutic touch,” which is like the Christian idea of laying on of hands (and like Reiki, the fancy history of which is pseudohistory, pranic healing and v
