Sorry to belabor the point, but that still doesn't tell me what the Q-Doctor actually does. With his hands, or instruments or whatever. How, exactly, does he busy himself attending to his patient?
aka knowledge, to poor people. For example poor people know there is a danger to go too close to a cliff because of gravity and shit, specially on a Segway. Apparently intuition told Mr. Heselden gravity doesn't work on rich people, thus: " A former coal miner, Heselden made his fortune manufacturing the Hesco bastion barrier system. In 2010, he bought Segway Inc., maker of the Segway personal transport system. Heselden died in 2010 from injuries apparently sustained falling from a cliff while riding his own product. His estate, bequeathed to his widow and family, was worth over £340 million..."
Let's say that Money only magnifies what is already in a person, or what type of person someone is. May be Mr Heselden had the habit of dismissing "poor people" knowledge. So the money just magnified that.
He didn't want to go under the knife. His cancer when found was very localized and very treatable, with high probability of a cure, if the surgeon took it out immediately.
Acupuncture and herbal remedies are the usual. There is a lot of research about hands on as in transferring qi from the doc to the patient should you care to look. I am not looking to recruit anyone, my interest came from years of Chinese martial arts practice which led to studies of Chinese philosophy, Taoist health practices and Traditional Chinese Medicine. Over the past couple of decades, there have been many forays by Western MD's and PhD's into the East to explore these practices and have produced copious study material and observations.
Normally, when under surgery, one goes through an anesthesy : aka a needle and one is asleep till the surgeon and his/her team has finished . What did he had difficulties with: - the needle - the idea of going through a surgeon?