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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