Is a doctor allowed to work like this?

Doctor only shuttled tumor out: Cancer patient died

Laying on of hands, scrying - there is a lot that can be done in alternative medicine. But are doctors only allowed to offer such services?

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Serious allegations have been made against a doctor in Carinthia. The doctor is said to have treated a 14-year-old cancer patient in an extremely alternative way. "He commuted, said the tumor was nothing serious," claims the father of the girl, who died of cancer a few months later. Are doctors allowed to work like this?

Alternative treatment methods are offered by many doctors - in addition to conventional medical therapies. But what about controversial offers such as pendulums, alchemy or laying on of hands? A case from Carinthia shows how desperate some patients are and what dramatic consequences this can have.