FAITH, HOPE AND FRAUD

How sadly ironic that the very day Paul Ciotti’s well-crafted story (“Faith, Hope and Fraud,” Dec. 15) appeared, our beautiful friend Selma Meyers died of the cancer she had been fighting--with Jimmy Keller’s help--for more than five years.

Selma had been delivered a death sentence by conventional medical practice, and seeking to extend the life she so dearly loved, she sought alternative care. Keller gave her that care.

Keller was a threat to nobody other than a medical community that is too shortsighted and vainglorious to admit that not everything about the human condition can be learned in medical school.

A. JAMES LISKA

GERI M. LESTER

Oak Park