Despite receiving public outcry following the deaths of two patients in the span of 12 months, Hazzard remained defiant. In fact, she released a statement to a newspaper where she admitted to even more fatalities while suggesting that the deaths were caused by other underlying health conditions. She insisted that fasting had prolonged their lives instead of ending them.
"...In each of these cases, it is my absolute conviction that their days were prolonged by the methods employed," she wrote in The Seattle Sunday Times. (posted at the Washington State Archives). Hazzard also bragged that she lost nine patients throughout her 11 years of practice.
"What doctor can show a record such as that?" she claimed. "When a physician administers a drug and his patient dies in twenty minutes nothing is said, but when one of my charges dies there is a great stir. The regular doctors hate me because I have a new method. They abhor anything new," she concluded.
Her public self-defense managed to be convincing to many people, and her practice remained successful. She went on to publish several books on the practice of fasting, with her first publication titled Fasting for the Cure of Disease.
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