European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - October 6, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Magazine Connecticut physician be to Stogol Tria to leave patients with something to Arnica  by Susan Okula associated press throughout the three hour operation surgeon Bernie Stogol lacked to his sleeping patient. You re doing Fine swe thearl siege called to her Over the operating room Uslie and the music of his tape machine. We re in the Homo stretch. You Are going to be Lino just heal the Way you have  in the wailing loom of the Hospital of is. Raphael in new Haven Cann. Siegel spoke frankly to his pal enl s family. Ii was cancer bul Shell probably gel Over it he Tom them. Have her pay attention to what she eals vitamins can help keep chromosomes healthy. Laler on his rounds Al Yale new Haven hos Pilat s Egel studied a Pic lure of a Butterfly drawn by a dying 2-year-old. He s always picking a Black Crayon the boy s lather said. He s reflecting the despair a eels around him Siegol replied. In the room of a seriously ill artist Siegel asked advice about silk screening. On the next floor he coaxed a kiss from a mid to aged patient and told tier he expected to dance with her the next Day. 1 try to leave them with something to smite  Siegel says. Siegel la a 53-year-old pedal rec and general surgeon with piercing eyes a shaved head and a decree from the Cornell University medical College. He recommends surgery chemotherapy radiation and medication to his cancer patients. He also prescribes prayer love and sell induced Healing. Bemie Siegel will Tell you straight up thai nobody a doctor who also prescribes grayer Ove and self induced Healing Over gels Well based on what a doctor does for  says Gail Daniels a Providence r i stockbroker  was treated by Siegel you gel Well when you Loarn How to Lap into your own consciousness and your body gets Well because you Are making that demand on  Siegel s philosophy prompted him to while a Book lab Medicine & miracles which was published by Harper & Row Ohhi year. He concedes Hal some of his colleagues Are sceptical of his technique everyone acknowledges that he is a Good surgeon says or. Francis Galbis a paediatrician on whom Siegel has operated twice. Some of the doctors Are reluctant to accept the other Side of  although Siegel can cite scientific studies to Back up Many of his beliefs he is More Likely to Lell a Story to make a Point. There was a Man in Here today who was very angry Siegel says sitting in his purple office. His cancer has probably come Back. We finally got around to Iha fact that he is 61 and he lost his Job in december. He has no income and certainly there is a sign of the cancer i Don t think that is a coincidence. I was talking about How despair affects the immune system and then tie said Well i loss my Job " in the 1970s, siege soya he transformed himself from a doctor who dealt with diseases to one who dealt with people. I committed the physician s Cardinal sin i got involved with my patients he Wyola in his Book. He began encouraging patients to Call him by his first name. A shaved his head a Symbol of the uncovering i was trying to make bating my own emotions spirituality and love he wrote. Believing that unconscious people can hear and Benalil from encouragement he started talking to patients in comas or under anaesthesia. Siegel also began to pay Alle lion to the people who recover from life threatening illnesses despite overwhelming Odds. He constant by dolls patients that they too can Beal the Odds and live longer bul they have to work hard to do it. In 1978. Siegel his wife and a nurse started a therapy group called exceptional cancer patients. Siegel urges them to Lake control of their lives to understand and authorize their medical treatment question their doctors and to make changes in their personal lives i teach people to love themselves to redirect their lives to not tahe abuse he says. That May mean standing up to a spouse quilling a haled Job or shedding financial worries he adds Moat a Opl in this world Are not to hatted with living he says. If you Lake out their Colon or their Gall bladder or their appendix you Haven t done a hell of a lol for them. You give them a Box of pits and sew them up so they go Back to the same miserable lives. But ii you say Why do you have an ulcer Why Are you sick Why can t you say no without guilt he might go Home and  Siegel suggests that patients try meditation and imagery wharf they picture their cancers and their bodies fighting tech. In his Book he wrote about a boy with a brain tumor doctors had stopped treating. The boy regularly imagined Hia cancer being bombarded by video game rocket ships. The cancer disappeared. Witt and his talk a Hie Siegel does t deny death. Today i see thai even death can Baa form of Healing he wrote. When patients whose bodies Are tired and acre Are of peace with these tvs and their loved on a they can choose death As their next  the stars and stripes Raja 13