# Zap! You're a healer; what do you do? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [April 5, 2016, 3:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/zap-youre-a-healer-what-do-you-do/751263 "2016-04-05T15:52:57Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![WhyNot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c77e96/32.png) [@WhyNot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WhyNot)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2016, 12:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/zap-youre-a-healer-what-do-you-do/751263/21 "2016-04-06T00:13:23Z")
> [@Trinopus](#): > > You’re the indispensible element: if you don’t like their policy, you go on strike. Is your cooperation required, or just your touch? Got Propofol? ---
**Author:** ![Lucas\_Jackson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lucas_jackson/32/303_2.png) [@Lucas\_Jackson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lucas_Jackson)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2016, 12:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/zap-youre-a-healer-what-do-you-do/751263/22 "2016-04-06T00:48:21Z")
Make money. ---
**Author:** ![Trinopus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/2bfe46/32.png) [@Trinopus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trinopus)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2016, 1:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/zap-youre-a-healer-what-do-you-do/751263/23 "2016-04-06T01:26:59Z")
> [@WhyNot](#): > > Is your cooperation required, or just your touch? Got Propofol? This is one of the reasons I’d commercialize it: I want to retain personal control, including property rights in my touch…and the ability to hire a security agency to protect me. Also a ton of lawyers, to try to prevent being seized by the government. If the lawyers can show that I’m already doing as good or better a job at healing than the government could, they lose a lot of their reasons to seize me. It’s sort of like the hypothetical, “What if you dug up a billion-dollar buried treasure in your back yard.” You have to start setting up your protections, nice and slow. You don’t just go on the evening news and announce it. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/zap-youre-a-healer-what-do-you-do/751263.md?page=1)