'I nudge the door shut with my foot, and sit down. “I have lost patients to all of those treatments,” I tell her quietly.'<p>But she never lost patients to traditional therapies? What a science-free article. This is the closest the article comes to an argument.<p>'We now know that many of these therapies are not only unhelpful but are downright dangerous.'<p>The doctor complaining about the arrogance of the patient in an environment where cancer is becoming more and more common and "modern medicine" can provide no fundamental way to address this.<p>Also this has nothing to do with Hacker News..