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From: andrea@hp-sdd.UUCP (andrea)
Newsgroups: net.med
Subject: Re: Unconventional Cancer Therapy
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Date: Tue, 26-Feb-85 15:40:00 EST
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Posted: Tue Feb 26 15:40:00 1985
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>
>> ...           Also amazingly enough, the AMA is so strongly against the
>> Gerson therapy (and others like it) that they are currently sponsoring
>> legislation to make it illegal to promulgate or engage in such therapies.
>> As of now, it is illegal for the Gerson Center to mail Dr. Gerson's 
>> (Yes, he was a *real* M.D.) book in the United States, even though
>> it does not advertise the treatment.
>> 
>
>Isn't their an amendment to the constitution that allows freedom
>of the press? Or of 'speach'?  How is this circumvented?  If it is,
>this is most serious...

for an eye-opening account of the history of medicine in this country,
and the somewhat less-than-constitutional workings of the AMA, I
recommend reading "Divided Legacy" by H.L.Coulter.  Should be required
reading for all doctors and doctors-to-be (are you listening out
there?;-)

Andrea Frankel, Hewlett-Packard (San Diego Division) (619) 487-4100 x4664
net:  {allegra|ihnp4|decvax|ucbvax}!hplabs!hp-sdd!andrea 

 ...searchlights casting for faults in the clouds of delusion

p.s.  Claude Pepper's bill died in committee, and he is about to
reintroduce it.  It is an abominable attempt by an entrenched power
to limit individual freedom, and I expect to see much discussion here
if it resurfaces again!