The true incidents are small life lessons told to help others avoid similar mistakes and to crusade against the exploitation of cancer victims. Philosophically, the book reflects on the still mysterious body-mind connection and instructs medical students as well as lay people to attend to both. She never mentioned this to anyone, and lived as normally as she could for two years. But when the doctor's deadline neared, her behavior changed radically and she simply stopped living.
All religions have miracles, and so do all therapies.
Religious leaders and medical healers, including quacks, all know this, and there will always be gullible victims. His book offers a cautionary note regarding the well known importance of a positive outlook. Hope should never be an expensive commodity, and a cancer patient, of all people, should never be charged an exorbitant fee. Krausz maintains that good sense, if not innate, can come from a lot of bad experiences, or, more easily, from reading about the bad experiences of others depicted in his book. Born in a multi-lingual Austrian village where his father was an elementary schoolmaster, young Marcos was motivated to become a physician when, during his high school years in Vienna, his mother became chronically ill.