Re: killer doctor


a_weisman@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
> Shortt got his medical degree on the Caribbean island of Montserrat,
> and has been practicing now for 13 years.

sketchy from the begginning.

> In his autopsy report, Nichols says Katherine Bibeau died from
> "systemic shock" and "DIC," a disorder in which the blood loses its
> ability to clot. Nichols blames Shortt's treatment, saying "this
> unfortunate woman died as direct result of ... infusion of hydrogen
> peroxide." The finding led Richland County's coroner to rule
Katherine
> Bibeau's death a "homicide."
>
> Why did Nichols say it was a homicide? "Because it was a deliberate
act
> to put unapproved drugs into her veins," he says.

it's one thing to use approved drugs in higher doses, or even off
label. but an entire other creature to use completely unapproved
drugs.

> "He's a dressed-up snake oil salesman with an M.D. after his name,"
> says attorney Richard Gergel, who is suing Shortt on behalf of the
> Bibeau family.
>
> Gergel says South Carolina's board of medical examiners should have
> moved to suspend Shortt's license immediately after Katherine
Bibeau's
> death was ruled a homicide.

should've, could've, would've....

> "It's up to the medical boards to protect the public from people who
> prey on those who have no cure," says Gergel.

gergel is obviously not a republican, lol.

> County coroner Gary Watts, however, worries the true risks of this
> treatment may be hidden. "One of my concerns is that it would not be
> unusual for patients to fly in, receive the treatment, fly back home
> and because they were terminal patients, nobody would think anything
> about it," says Watts. "They were terminal patients. They died."
>
> These concerns prompted South Carolina's law enforcement division to
> investigate. In September, detectives seized all of Shortt's records.
> And then, a former patient, who spent many hours in Shortt's infusion
> room, came forward with allegations of her own.
>
> "I absolutely believe it was a complete racket," says Janet Bate.
> "Absolutely."
>
>> Bate says she and her husband paid Shortt at least $26,000 over the
> course of eight months, hoping it would help Michael Bate live
longer,
> just as the doctor's sign says.
>
> "Longevity physician. Makes me laugh now because he sure shortened my
> husband's, hastened his death," says Bate.
>
> She charges that Shortt's treatment hastened her husband's death,
> because in addition to giving Michael Bate hydrogen peroxide, Shortt
> also wrote a prescription for testosterone cream. It's a treatment
that
> Bate believes was contrary to the standard of care and the efforts of
> her husband's oncologist.
>
> "He had tears streaming down his cheeks," recalls Bate. "And he said,
> 'A terrible mistake. Shortt has made a terrible mistake. I'm a dead
> man. Janet, I'm a dead man walking now.'"
>
> Shortt denies the testosterone cream he prescribed hastened Michael
> Bate's death, but he won't say anything more than that, citing
patient
> confidentiality. He insists, however, he's done nothing wrong.
>
but now it has been completely corroborated that shortt indeed was
prescribing illicit testerone steroids, or the cream. he either didn't
bother to look at his records to see what other meds he was taking, was
too stupid too realize the interaction, or didn't care.

obviously all three are true.

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Relevant Pages

  • H2O2 Death Doctor FYI Dali
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  • A Prescription For Death?
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