They may prescribe innumerable placebos, sound more encouraging than the facts warrant, and distort grave news, especially to the incurably ill and the dying.

他们会开出无数的安慰剂，说的话听起来比担保的实情更令人鼓舞，并歪曲一些重大的消息，尤其是对那些患有不治之症和要死的病人。

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Incurably ill patients grapple with both despair and hope of such magnitude that they are willing to try unproven embryonic stem cell treatments overseas despite mounting evidence that doctors who perform such procedures, currently not approved in the United States, do so only to convert hope into cash.

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