The film Dying to Know by Steve Kroschel is certainly easier to watch than most documentaries. The film’s subject is a natural diet developed by Dr. Gerson that can cure cancer. I did have some reservations about the film in the beginning, by the end though I believe this therapy can work. Including patient interviews was a very smart idea; something to tug at the heartstrings and it did just that. It gave more of a human aspect to the film.
The film opens with a man on a plane telling Mr. Kroschel that his friend, whose father is an immunologist, does not vaccinate her kids. This put me on the defensive about the movie right away. Even with the speculations of problems that certain vaccines can cause a child down the road, I still believe
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Wallace Sampson, who is very opposed to this treatment and again comes across very patronizing. He states that you cannot tell what this therapy does because the Gerson clinic does not keep detailed records to which Gerson’s daughter invites any doctor to examine the clinics files. He also points out that Gerson has not published any articles to support his treatment. When the filmmaker has shown us many publications by Gerson. It is almost as if Dr. Sampson is purposefully ignoring facts to fit his opinion. He claims that doctors know exactly what causes cancer, which I believe is an outright lie. If doctors know exactly what causes cancer, why then is it still around? He absolutely discredits alternative medicine and claims the only reason that the American Cancer Society does not discredit alternative medicine is for PR reasons.
Recovered melanoma patient, Beata Bishop, fights back against the arguments of critics saying that the Gerson treatment has never been studied. She asserts a lifestyle change cannot be studied. Dr. Carolyn Dean agrees stating that science is set up to test one variable, while the Gerson therapy has hundreds of variables. She is also the author of “Death by Modern Medicine” and say that about 784 thousand people die even with modern medicine. Which is believable to me if you ever listen to those TV commercials for medications, a lot of them list death as a side effect. Death as a side effect,