1.   At Columbia-Presbyterian, Dr. Rafael A. Lantigua, the director of general medicine outpatient services, has many patients in common with a folk healer named Celeste.

2.   At Elmhurst Hospital Center in Queens, a curandero, or Mexican folk healer, was allowed in to perform a cleansing ceremony for a schizophrenic patient.

3.   After two or three days, his parents consulted an elderly folk healer.

4.   But Cisneros did not know the folk healer was already under arrest and cooperating with authorities by wearing a concealed microphone.

5.   But lead defense attorney Tony Canales assailed the credibility of both the folk healer and Garza, noting they had contradicted themselves repeatedly.

6.   It also envisions writing common codes of ethics and training for folk healers.

7.   Patients are often reluctant to say they see folk healers, fearing they will be stigmatized as ignorant and unsophisticated.

8.   The folk healers range greatly from group to group, neighborhood to neighborhood, with much overlap.

9.   The folk healer turned to Daniel Garza, a San Antonio house painter who had consulted Martinez about getting his wife to return to him.

10.   The painter told the jury he picked up the money from the folk healer and paid the killers before lunch.