By Dr. Rashid A. Buttar
Video Transcript: Cancer is Not a Death Sentence
Dr. Rashid Buttar: Believe it or not, the most significant is the emotional psychological component. I have had patients… you know the stories. I’ve got a book that I’ve written that I haven’t published. But the stories that I can tell you where we’ve actually taken patients…in fact, I’ll tell you we’ve had two families that agreed to autopsies on patients that I treated.
You know, most of the time when you talk to family about getting an autopsy, why? The question is, “Why would we want to spend another five thousand to do an autopsy when we know they had cancer and they died of cancer − there’s no reason.”
But one family in 1999 and another family in 2001 agreed to do an autopsy after the patient died, after we treated them. Because in my heart there was no way this person had cancer. You want to take a wild guess what they found on autopsy?
Ty: No cancer.
Dr. Rashid Buttar: None, at all. Not even a trace. What was interesting was both patients however died within a week or two of when they were told they were going to die by their oncologist. The power of belief. That’s what they believed.
Doctors don’t realize… they’re a doctor so when somebody hears, “Well they’re the doctor, they know.” So when the doctor says something they just put the thought in the person’s brain. It’s almost like a self-fulfilling prophecy.
Now interestingly enough that second patient that they did the autopsy on. The nephew of that patient owned a funeral home, and the patient was buried through that funeral home. He came back a couple months later to tell me a story.
He said, “Listen I wanted you to know Dr. Buttar that when we got the autopsy, when we ordered the autopsy…”
They sent the patient from the funeral home for the autopsy and they hadn’t started the process yet so they sent him for autopsy and the pathologist that was doing the autopsy contacted the funeral home