OMG, they're spiritual god and godess drama queens!

I think there may be a reason that the only time mainstream media reports that the care of a person with something like cancer or in need of bypass surgery is when it ends in the patients death. Most people who get spiritual healing are just smart enough to go to a hospital and the few who do place their health in the hands of these (sometimes well meaning) charlatans end up dead, not cured (unless misdiagnosed in the first place). It's no surprise that just about every type of spiritual healing success I hear about (mine included, more on that in a moment lest you think I'm a nutjob) is either emotional healing, self reporting of pain or self limiting conditions.
In the past I went to a chiropractor and an acupuncturist for back pain (the kind that makes it impossible to sit or walk for any length of time) before I had a true understanding of what they really do. In all fairness the chiropractor was a really good guy and I got some awesome massages in his office and he didn't push the sublaxtion thing or the other weird herbal stuff. He was more about alignment and therapy and massage, though he did still do adjustments, which turned out (surprised?) in my case to do about as much as doing nothing. So I learned about chiropractic the expensive way.
The acupuncture thing in my mind is even more bizarre, I only went to her like 3 or 4 times and gave it a chance before concluding that it didn't do jack shit. During that time I learned about chi and realized it was a made up energy. Since then I have become well educated on the implausibility of acupuncture. I think I even tried cranial-sacral massage which is an even bigger spiritual/physical con.
So I left all of that a little poorer and a lot wiser. I stuck to pilates and yoga and swimming and the orthopedic back surgeon confirmed what I came to realize, my back pain is self limiting and gets better every year just given time... gah! I hate learning things that way.
The good news is, my back feels much better and I will never waste my money on a drama queen shaman! The end. ;)

Putting the "sham" in shaman.