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Date Posted: 01:27:49 04/26/02 Fri
Author: Blah Blah Blah
Subject: Medical Quackery
In reply to: anon 's message, "Medical Quackery" on 13:40:39 04/12/02 Fri

This quackery should never be allowed anywhere, but I doubt our "powers what is" have enough sense or backbone to put a stop to it! When will we in Cayman ever have a truly competent medical service (or government)?

Blah

>Recently it was brought to tho attention of the
>Government that Chelation Therapy was being performed
>on patients, by a local doctor. This doctor told me
>that the government told him to have all of his
>patients sign informed consent forms in which they
>indicate that they had been informed about Chelation
>Therapy and it?s use in treating people with arterial
>plaque accumulation problems. This doctor told me that
>Chelation therapy as performed in his practice was
>useful in removing free radicals from the body which
>could cause health problems. He cited no studies to
>verify his claims, and as far as I can determine he
>will continue to give Chelation Therapy treatments to
>patients for that reason.
>The doctor should have been required by the government
>to submit the data from scientific studies which
>supported his claims. Only then should he be legally

>able to administer Chelation Therapy for any given
>ailment. If what I was told by this doctor is true
>the Government has not stopped this bogus medical
>treatment. It is now being used for a different
>reason, again without any scientific proof that it
>does what it claims to.

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