It kind of sounds like you have a very specific context in mind when you say this. Mind explaining?
To elaborate, the situation described in the article is a case report. In this case, the gamble paid off and the man was cured. However, we rarely hear about the cases in which this gamble was lost and the experimental treatment did not result in a successful return to health. It's human to want to belong and to have others come to our aid. Sadly, it's also human to be thanking the cat for killing mice one day and then cursing it for eating our goldfish the next.