A 70-year-old self-confessed alternative medicine man has been jailed in Norway after he gave misleading and illegal advice to a terminally cancer patient, it was revealed on Thursday.
The man was sentenced to 30 days in jail by Inntrøndelag district court after being found guilty of advising a seriously ill cancer patient to come off chemotherapy. He will serve the sentence on probabtion.
Under a new Norwegian law on alternative medical practice, only qualified professional health personnel are allowed to treat serious diseases, unless it happens in cooperation with the patient’s general practitioner, NRK reported.
Sham healer jailed for harming cancer victim - The Local
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