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The principles of the law of attraction have also been interpreted in the realm of medicine and illness. In 1990, Bernie Siegel (a retired assistant clinical professor of surgery at Yale) published a popular book, Love, Medicine and Miracles, which asserted that the threat of disease was related to a person's imagination, will, and belief. Siegel primarily advocated "love" as the source of healing and longevity stating that "if you want to be immortal, love someone."

Siegel's description has been largely rejected by the medical community. The most notable critic is neuroendocrinologist and Standford professor Robert Sapolsky, who devoted a whole chapter in his book Why Zebras Don't Get Ulcers to critiquing Siegel. Sapolsky refers to Siegel's general idea as "benign gibberish" but is strongly critical of what he sees as blaming patients for their illness, based only on questionable anecdotal evidence. Sapolsky sums up his primary criticism as follows:


 * This looks good to me. I would state the dissertation reference specifically in response to: "based only on questionable anecdotal evidence".  The dissertation employs standard scientific study process and documents concrete findings that aren't 'anecdotal'--Ahnalira (talk) 14:23, 13 August 2008 (UTC)