I don't know if it is true or not, but my grandmother says its true. She had a first serious patient. She was a new doctor from medical university, asked another doctor's advise and was told, for that person is too late, it was 1950, nothing as now.
My grandmother was very sad, she had the results, it was therapeutic department, person was noncontinuous, was only matter of time.
Then she went to her village, where she was living with her parents, crying non stop and one old lady promised she would see if she can help. The old lady got in the hospital the same evening (they had to walk from the village to the city) and she put that person hands the way Jesus was on the cross. This how people have to lie down for sometimes according to natural healing. She told good words, touched his head and cheeks with her wrinkled hands, talked quietly, prayed with my grandmother who was young and skeptical. The patient recovered, but but the old lady said, she just wanted my grandmother feel better, and had no special power.