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Updated March 24, 2010

 

This website is intended to bring attention to these public health risks & related information:

I. "Malariotherapy": For decades, the Heimlich Institute has been conducting abusive human experiments on American & Third World patients suffering with AIDS, cancer, and Lyme Disease, by deliberately infecting them with malaria. Experts have compared this "research" to the Nazi concentration camp experiments and the Tuskegee syphilis experiments. My father says plans are in motion to start a new project in an unnamed country. Why has Deaconess Associations of Cincinnati, a health services mega-corporation, funded and sponsored these experiments?

II. The Heimlich maneuver for drowning rescue: Every legitimate medical organization and drowning expert agree that this discredited treatment is useless and potentially deadly as it wastes precious rescue time and may cause victims to vomit and aspirate. For example:

The Heimlich maneuver to remove water or aspirated material from the airway does not have a role in prehospital care of the drowning patients. Aspirated particulate matter provides no airway obstruction requiring dislodgment. In addition, repeating the Heimlich maneuver in the drowning patient delays hospital arrival and poses a risk to anyone with a cervical spine injury. Management of the Drowned Patient, EMR, July 11, 2009

So where did the idea that the Heimlich maneuver should be performed on drowning victims originate? Facts indicate that in 1974 my father, who knew nothing about the physiology of drowning, simply dreamed it up. My research uncovered that from 1974-2003 my father and a physician from Potomac MD used cronies to fabricate a string of cases in which drowning victims were allegedly rescued by the use of the maneuver. To encourage the public to perform the procedure, the cases were planted in the media and then my father published them in medical journals.

Meanwhile, the press portrayed him as a "maverick taking on the medical bureaucracy" instead of what he is - a celebrity doctor promoting a crackpot theory with no legitimate supporting evidence. This astonishingly irresponsible "Inside Edition" report below is a good example:

The result? Reportedly over three decades the use of the Heimlich maneuver by lifeguards and bystanders in near-drowning cases has resulted in dozens of serious injuries and deaths, including children. (Astoundingly, despite near-universal discrediting of the Heimlich for drowning rescue, several ethically-challenged organizations continue to promote the treatment.)

In short, "America's most famous doctor" (The New Republic, 2007) came up with a baseless medical procedure and over the course of three decades fabricated a string of phony case reports to promote it. The legacy of this madness is who knows how many dead and seriously-injured kids plus ongoing confusion in the field.

The responsibility belongs not only to my father, but to his cronies who faked case reports and to those individuals who helped circulate his "poison idea" for financial gain - PMH

 

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