Monday, February 27, 2006
Head of shut clinic defends alternatives
Kurt Donsbach, former patients speak in favor of choices; facility closed after Coretta King's death.
Sounds like a hero, not a felon to me. What are credentials anyway, and what's the viability of chemotherapy and radiation? Conventional doctors are killing people left and right. Where's the justice?
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LONG BEACH — The director of the Rosarito, Mexico, alternative medicine clinic shut down after Coretta Scott King died addressed his critics on Saturday by voicing his support for patients' rights to choose their treatment, while former patients gave their testimonials.Full Article by Samantha Gonzaga
Kurt Donsbach came under the media spotlight after the widow of civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. died of ovarian cancer on Jan. 30, four days after she checked into Santa Monica Health Institute in the hopes of receiving a combination of traditional and holistic treatment for advanced cancer.
His harshest detractors have questioned his credentials and the viability of his treatments, and brought renewed attention to his past felonies, which include tax evasion and smuggling illegal medicine in the United States.
Sounds like a hero, not a felon to me. What are credentials anyway, and what's the viability of chemotherapy and radiation? Conventional doctors are killing people left and right. Where's the justice?
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