[LINK] "'Doctor' treating First Nations girls says cancer patients can heal themselves"

[rfmcdonald]

The saddest thing about this quack, as reported by the CBC's Connie Walker and Marnie Luke, are the child patients who apparently won't have the chance that they could have enjoyed if only they followed actual medical treatment. May the people responsible for their suffering and potential deaths feel guilt that they did this to the young ones who depended on them.

A Florida health resort licensed as a “massage establishment” is treating a young Ontario First Nations girl with leukemia using cold laser therapy, Vitamin C injections and a strict raw food diet, among other therapies.

The mother of the 11-year-old girl, who can not be identified because of a publication ban, says the resort’s director, Brian Clement, who goes by the title “Dr.,” told her leukemia is “not difficult to treat.”

Another First Nations girl, Makayla Sault, was also treated at Hippocrates Health Institute in West Palm Beach and is now critically ill after a relapse of her leukemia.

The resort has declined CBC’s request for an interview with Clement, who is described as a “naturopathic doctor” on the resort’s website.

But the Florida state health authority has said Clement is not a licensed doctor or naturopath, and inquiries regarding the institutions where he is described in online biographies as having earned degrees have raised questions about their credibility.

The 11-year-old girl was receiving chemotherapy at McMaster Children’s Hospital in Hamilton. Doctors gave her a 90 to 95 per cent chance of survival with chemotherapy.

But her mother says she wanted to pursue a combination of traditional indigenous medicine and alternative therapies because she believes chemotherapy is “poison.”