Surely, I thought, in a future where you can be healed without being touched and teleported, you could also cure baldness.

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In all likelihood, while the medics were debating, the patient would die -- probably without even feeling significant symptomatic relief, to say nothing of obtaining a cure.

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It doesn't cure the cancer but has kept it at bay for almost five years, without the severe side effects and clinic visits of regular chemotherapy.

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