A recent scenario in the news highlights an alarming trend in &ampquotalternative&ampquot health treatment-how difficult it is becoming to both acquire and offer alternative treatment in the United States. Dr. James Michael Shortt (an M.D.) coaching longevity medication in Greenville, South Carolina, has been sued by the family members members of a individual who died beneath his treatment, and might be indicted for murder. (AP/LA Events 1-09-05.)

The info in the media concerning this unlucky scenario is extremely instructive if study with a discerning eye. Dr. Shortt is being sued merely simply because he administered a treatment that is outdoors &ampquotthe requirements of treatment of the medical profession.&ampquot This phrase is crucial. An additional trigger of action in the lawsuit was that Dr. Shortt had knowledgeable the individual that her numerous sclerosis was brought on by a bacteria or virus and that the organism(s) could be killed by hydrogen peroxide infusions. Lastly, the coroner and pathologist who examined the individual attributed her death to &ampquotcomplications brought on by the hydrogen peroxide infusion, which the pathologist said ‘had no reputable use . . . in the medical literature.’ &ampquot

The missing data in this homicide ruling is that the individual was taking two prescriptions prescribed by her mainstream physician-Tegretol and Copaxone. If you study the Physician’s Desk Reference, there are warnings that both of these substances might trigger precisely the sorts of aspect effects that she died from. Hydrogen Peroxide does not trigger these effects. Even a lot much more disturbing, is that one of these drugs is not approved for use with Numerous Sclerosis. So who is truly at fault right here? (If you want the technical particulars, please get in touch with Dr. Richards directly.)

Dr. Shortt consulted with the International Oxidative Medicine Association, which created the regimens he utilized. The group found that Dr. Shortt had followed its &ampquotwell-established&ampquot protocols. These protocols are clinically established in 1000′s of individuals. Dr. Shortt himself has handled much more than 1,800 individuals with this protocol.

The problems right here that are highlighted inside this unlucky set of conditions are:

1) The legal establishment makes the assumption that the medical profession has confirmed remedies and, a lot much more importantly, the only legal remedies for circumstances of human health.

If you’ve been following the news, you know how fallacious this is. Vioxx is only the newest instance of a substance, approved for use, that has confirmed to be existence-threatening. Where was &ampquotthe medical literature&ampquot when this drug was approved for use? How did it accomplish acceptance with out a lot much better scrutiny? I predict that we will rapidly have an extra scandal in the news ? statins and the way in which they trigger heart failure.

two) The medical profession makes use of its peer review process to determine what info and study enters the public realm and becomes component of the accepted &ampquotmedical literature&ampquot.

Any info that is outdoors the medical paradigm (study alternative therapies) is systematically shut out by peer review and by no means will get printed in medically accepted journals. I can give you hundreds of references documenting the link in between Lyme sickness and much more than 350 persistent health circumstances. But, the medical profession chooses to selectively ignore them.

three) Most of the study in the United States is funded by the pharmaceutical business. Organic remedies, which can’t be patented, offer no revenue incentive to the pharmaceutical houses and are, consequently, ignored ? even though they are safer in numerous instances than the approved drugs. There is a large body of study function in Europe and in Asia on the efficacy of numerous &ampquotnatural&ampquot remedies that merely do not display up right here in the U.S.

4) There are a broad choice of circumstances for which the medical profession has no etiology. MS is one. There is study exhibiting that numerous of these circumstances are linked to the Lyme sickness parasite however, the medical profession is active pretending that broad spread Lyme sickness doesn’t exist, regardless of massive quantities of proof to the contrary. MS has been particularly linked to the Lyme organism (for instance, Fallon BA, Kochevar JM, Gaito A., Nields JA, &ampquotThe Underdiagnosis of neuropsychiatric Lyme sickness in children and grown ups,&ampquot Psych Clin North Am., 1998, Sep21(three):693-703. From the Division of Psychiatry, Columbia University Well being-related Middle, New York, New York. The abstract particularly references the connection in between Lyme Sickness and numerous sclerosis.)

I personally believe that the medical profession is fighting for its credibility, merely simply because there are so numerous circumstances for which they have no effective treatment. When possible, the full weight of the medical board and the legal program is brought to bear on any medical practitioner who dares to buck the program. Dr. Shortt is only the newest in a lengthy line of distinguished predecessors.

The only solution that I can see to this issue is that the public turn out to be knowledgeable about what is heading on and start a grass roots movement to oppose this entrenched power grab. Your health and your health treatment versatility rely on it.

-Dr. N. Rowan Richards, D.C., D.A.B.C.I., F.I.A.C.A.

Dr. Richards is a Diplomate of the American Board of Chiropractic Internists, a licensed herbalist, and a Fellow of the International Academy of Medical Acupuncture. She was lately awarded the distinction of being invited to turn out to be a Fellow in the International College of Chiropractors. Dr. Richards has been in apply for much more than eighteen many years, teaches experts, lectures, and is presently operating on a number of publications. Her web site is http://www.richardsfamilyhealth.com

Dr. Richards can be reached at Richards Family members Well being Middle (626) 963-1678.