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俄罗斯人“神奇”医疗术 　　Meet Marina Belorysova, a college educated 20-something English teacher working at a primary school here in Moscow. Her feelings on what doctors do aren’t exactly what an American might see as mainstream. 　　Belorysova: They give advices, but most of them are about herbs. They know a lot of recipes of how to use herbs and so on. My mom still uses it. 　　来认识一下玛琳娜·贝罗索娃。她是一名二十来岁，受过大学教育的英语老师，她在莫斯科的一所小学任职。她对医生都做些什么的看法可是与美国人的主流看法有出入。 　　贝罗索娃：他们给你提供建议，但大部分意见都与草药有关。他们知道许多如何食用草药的方子。我妈妈现在也还在使用这些药方。 　　Herbs and spells? May sound like something out of Harry Potter, but not here. According to the latest government statistics, about 300,000 1)Muscovites went to alternative healers last year. Overall, Russia has 800,000 of them; more than the number of official doctors. 　　Daria Minerova’s a 2)clairvoyant healer. Her Moscow office is full of crystal balls, lava lamps, white owls, and candles. She says she’s often called upon by “regular” doctors to either cast or clear spells for patients. 　　Minerova said: “They ask me for a consultation when they have a difficult case. For example, when the diagnosis and treatment seem to be correct, but they still can’t cure a patient. ” 　　School teacher Belorysova says it’s pretty common among Russians to try western medicine, then go for the alternative. 　　Belorysova: I have a friend and she has a baby, and when the baby was one, she also had some kind of disease, but it was inside. They went to a medical center and they have a thing that showed it. And of course they could treat it with medicine—with pills, and maybe they did something—but they also said that you have to go to a lady who can cast a spell on it and it will go away. 　　Dr. Malkina, who prefers not to use her first name, works at the European Medical Center, a private clinic here in Moscow. She’s a certified 3)neurologist, but has integrated alternative medicine into her treatment methods at the clinic. Dr. Malkina agrees that many Russians don’t like to take risks wh