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There was a thread on this board some time ago regarding negativity some people have towards doctors. If I remember correctly, the poster said that the doctors go to medical schools for many years and know enough to be trusted. Well, if this is not what the poster said exactly, then I've seen this theme somewhere else. I just read a review of a book written by a Harvard-trained dietician, and this review supports very well people's distrust in doctors. A dietician is not a doctors, but it still supports the point.
The book is called Eat Up: Nutrition Advice and Food Ideas for People Living with HIV and AIDS.
Here's the review (taken from http://www.westonaprice.org/eatup.htm):
I pity the poor souls who will have to suffer through, with and because of this book. Smigelski, a Harvard-trained dietician who runs the HIV Nutrition Coalition with several other RDs in the Boston area, opens by saying that those who are HIV positive need to eat as many "healthy foods" as possible. But Smigelski's idea of what makes up "healthy food" is standard dietician fare: the Food Pyramid with "tons" of grains and foods that are "lowfat, high fiber, whole wheat, dark green and low sugar.” This is his advice if one is asymptomatic.
However, if one has fought off a major infection, Smigelski recommends foods that are "buttery, sweet, rich, creamy, fatty, fried, syrupy, heavy" to put back lost weight and muscle mass. Further, if one is fighting a major infection, he recommends "candy, vitamins and supplement drinks" if one is feeling "very sick and uncomfortable.” He doesn’t say how eating candy will help a sick body fight off an illness.
Some of his food suggestions are: Wheaties, Cheerios, or Total for breakfast; Pretzels, potato chips, and soda with lunch; Milk or hot chocolate with Fig Newtons or other cookies for a snack; A slice of pie or cake, or three or four cookies with milk or juice as a late night snack; and “easy foods” like doughnuts, peanut butter with Marshmallow Fluff, a two-inch slice of angel food cake, and canned peaches.
Apparently, it’s OK to guzzle entire quarts of fruit juice and Gatorade during the day, but not OK to put some extra butter on your boiled parsnips and canned pears because it might be too high in fat!
Smigelski offers food tips for people with diarrhea. Recommended are white rice, Gatorade, Egg Beaters, tofu, gummy bears, Twizzlers licorice sticks and gum drops. Smigelski also recommends MCT Oil as a fat option during diarrhea, but fails to inform his readers that excessive MCT Oil causes diarrhea. Smigelski gives eight recipes for white rice for "when your intestines cannot handle milk, fats, and fiber."
For supplements, Smigelski recommends low levels of synthetic vitamins which could not possibly supply an ailing body with any "nutritional insurance." His advice on antioxidant supplementation (absolutely critical when dealing with AIDS) is pitiful and woefully inadequate.
Perhaps the most despicable thing about the book is the fatalism that is brimming under the surface of almost every page, the fatalism that the reader, no matter how many food tricks he may pull or how many cans of Ensure he drinks, will die of AIDS. "As you know,” says Smigelski, “HIV slowly destroys the immune system so that it cannot fight infections as well." Later on he reminds the reader that, "You will most likely need special drinks . . . . A tube-feeding might be necessary." One can only imagine the negative psychological impact of such horrific statements on an unsuspecting reader.
Instead of offering his readers choices for real nutrient-dense food and easy ways to prepare them, Smigelski stays mired in the muck of TV dinners, high-sugar sports drinks, sodas and packaged convenience foods that are devoid of any life-giving properties. Instead of reminding his readers that virtually all of their diarrhea and other side effects come from the toxic, carcinogenic drugs that they are terrified into taking, and that they'd be better off not taking them at all, Smigelski offers an endless array of white rice recipes to "cope." Instead of offering his readers hope for the future and a sound supplement regime to stay on top of oxidative stress, Smigelski offers generic, synthetic vitamins and thoughts of death.
This book should have been titled: "How to Eat if You WANT to Die of AIDS."
Stephen Byrnes, ND, RNCP
www.PowerHealth.net
In Reply to: Trusting doctors posted by R. on September 03, 2001 at 17:34:46:
Hi, R - Do you think that perhaps the author wrote the book kind of "tongue in cheek"? I read the link, and it seems to me that the author is writing to people who have full-blown AIDS, and perhaps the author has known someone who has had it and suffered and died because of it. Obviously, I could be absolutely wrong about this. The reason I say it is that I had a cousin who died of AIDS to whom I was very close. He used to joke about the doctors and the media either trying to kill off all homosextuals or pretending that there was a cure for AIDS. He knew that he was eventually going to die of AIDS. He tried everything, though, to keep from dying - ate well, stopped smoking, stopped drinking, etc.
But finally, he realized that nothing was going to help. If a person is positive that death from AIDS can't be avoided in his lifetime, why shouldn't he enjoy life and try to put on weight by eating what he enjoys? I'm not defending doctors, but I don't believe that the man who wrote that book meant any harm. Only my opinion, of course. Raisa
In Reply to: Trusting doctors posted by R. on September 03, 2001 at 17:34:46:
There is NO evidence that AIDS is caused by any VIRUS as of yet.
It is more convincing that the claims that AIDS is caused by HIV is just another scam by poorly educated doctors who are in pursue of "popularity" contest while making money by selling unproven drugs to many people including those with misdiagnosed AIDS by shoddy testing techniques.
Read interview with Kary Mullis, winner of the 1993 Nobel Prize in chemistry, has rocked the world of science with his party-boy surfer demeanor. Now he's taking on the AIDS establishment.
Recent appearance of Christine Maggiore on 20/20 was fascinating!
Transcript:
Questioning AIDS
20/20 Friday: A Chat With AIDS Dissident Christine Maggiore
http://www.abcnews.go.com/sections/community/DailyNews/chat_aids0827.html
Aug. 27 — In 1992, Christine Maggiore tested positive for HIV after a routine medical exam. Believing she was terminally ill, she devoted herself to warning others about the dangers of AIDS.
But a year after she was diagnosed, another HIV test came back indeterminate and a subsequent test was negative. Frustrated and angry, Maggiore desperately searched for answers. The more she read, the more questions she had.
Maggiore's controversial book, What if Everything You Thought You Knew About AIDS Was Wrong?, questions the most basic medical and scientific findings about the disease.
Activists and many AIDS experts have attacked her for her dissident views, but Maggiore's influence is growing, and her voice has been heard across the country and around the world.
Read the transcript of our live chat with Maggiore, below.
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Moderator at 2:36 p.m. ET
We're joined by Christine Maggiore, author of the book What if Everything You Thought You Knew About AIDS Was Wrong? and founder of Alive & Well AIDS Alternatives, a non-profit organization that provides educational support, peer support, independent research and legal defense for people affected by and concerned with issues relating to HIV and AIDS. Welcome, Christine!
"The idea that HIV causes AIDS is an idea that has not been proven to be correct or true," you told ABCNEWS' 20/20. "There are many valid, vital reasons to go back and rethink what we've been told." Why, in your view, should we question the most basic medical and scientific findings about the disease?
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Christine Maggiore at 2:37 p.m. ET
I think the primary concerns are that, after 20 years and $93 billion dollars, scientists still have no explanation as to how or why HIV causes AIDS; that, to this day, we are using tests to give people life and death diagnoses that do not identify HIV or detect HIV-specific antibody response; that official treatments center around toxic health-compromising drugs that do not address specific individualized needs; and that since 1987, thanks to the efforts of Dr. Matilda Krim, there have been no drug trials for AIDS in which drugs are tested in a proper, scientific way, against a true placebo control.
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Moderator at 2:44 p.m. ET
Lynelle asks: "Are you at all concerned about the high possibility and risk of giving HIV or AIDS to your children and husband?"
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Christine Maggiore at 2:46 p.m. ET
Based on my extensive research, personal experience with my own excellent health, and working with thousands of people worldwide who test HIV-positive and lead healthy, productive and even exceptional lives, and given the non-specific nature of the tests, I don't have fears.
My son will be 4 in two weeks and he's far above average in every stage of his physical and mental development and has never been sick.
Normally, pregnancy causes a certain degree of immune suppression in healthy, HIV-negative women. Even in these particular circumstances, I'm ridiculously healthy.
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Moderator at 2:48 p.m. ET
Jessie writes: "What happened to the person who gave you HIV? Has he come down with full blown AIDS?"
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Christine Maggiore at 2:49 p.m. ET
In 1996, following elective surgery that didn't go very well, he received a blood transfusion for loss of blood, came down with a pneumonia, and decided to take drug therapy for AIDS. From what I understand, he's not doing very well. But we are not in close contact.
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Moderator at 2:50 p.m. ET
Sam Johnson asks: "How do you explain the high amounts of AIDS in southern Africa in only countries that have a high HIV%?"
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Christine Maggiore at 2:52 p.m. ET
Most people don't realize that the numbers we hear about are estimates and projections, not actual diagnosed cases of AIDS.
The estimates currently for South Africa are between 4 and 5 million cases of HIV/AIDS. However, actual diagnosed cases of AIDS for the past 20 years number less eathan 13,000, and during the AIDS epidemic there has been no increase in infant mortality rates in South Africa. The average life expectancy is at an all-time high, the population grows at a healthy 3% annually, and death rates from all causes including AIDS are less than 1% annually.
In India, for example, it's estimated that in 1999, close to 2 million people died of AIDS in that yr alone. Officially counted AIDS cases, however, for the entire AIDS epidemic are just over 11,000.
The media favors harrowing estimates over the less concerning actual numbers.
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Moderator at 2:56 p.m. ET
Nicole writes: "Don't you feel that your choice to bring your children into the world and risking their lives is just a little bit selfish?"
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Christine Maggiore at 2:57 p.m. ET
No, I am very certain of the choices I've made with regard to my own health and that of my family. Like any loving, responsible parent, I want what's best for my children and work very very hard to be a well-informed, responsible mother.
I'm sure if you met my family you might think differently about your assumption regarding my choices.
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Moderator at 2:58 p.m. ET
Catnip wonders: "What is the percentage of people who test HIV-positive who have lived symptom-free as long as you, or longer?"
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Christine Maggiore at 3:01 p.m. ET
Unfortunately, there are no unbiased studies that quantify the number of people who test HIV-positive and enjoy normal health. Instead, we have studies that define health through laboratory markers like T-cell count and viral load results, neither of which can accurately identify or predict good health.
For example, I know a man in San Francisco who has been HIV-positive, healthy, and taking no AIDS drugs since 1986. Although he's never been ill, he was excluded from a study of healthy HIV-positives because his T-cell count was 62 lower than the study's entry level requirement.
Despite the lack of properly-constructed studies, there are numerous published reports showing that HIV-positives who live in health tend to stay away from AIDS drugs or have only taken them for a brief period of time and engage in proper nutrition, exercise, healthy life choices and have a healthy mental outlook.
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Moderator at 3:04 p.m. ET
Dooby writes: "At what point of researching existing AIDS/HIV information did you begin to see holes in current research and theorems?"
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Christine Maggiore at 3:06 p.m. ET
When I first tested HIV-positive, there was conflicting information about my own diagnosis that, had I not been so frightened, I probably would have explored further.
It wasn't until a year later, after becoming a public speaker and educator for several prominent AIDS organizations and being on the board of Women at Risk, that I had the personal experience of going from HIV-positive to indeterminate, to positive to negative to positive.
Since none of what I was taught to teach others explained my conflicting test results, I began to look deeper into the AIDS education I was given and was sharing with others. It was then I found a body of compelling medical, scientific, and epidemiological data that brought into question almost everything I had accepted as true about HIV and AIDS.
That was in 1994.
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Moderator at 3:09 p.m. ET
Brittany asks: "Will you ever decide to test your husband and kids for HIV?"
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Christine Maggiore at 3:11 p.m. ET
My husband is and always has been free to make his own decisions about testing.
With regard to our son, we feel very strongly that subjecting him to a test that neither tests for the presence of the virus itself or is able to accurately indicate the presence of HIV specific antibodies is something we can't ethically support.
Our pediatrician and our family's doctor stand behind our choices and we all have records of regular medical care showing we are far above average in our health.
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Moderator at 3:12 p.m. ET
Jim writes: "I just wanted to congratulate you on your ability to sustain your beliefs about AIDS and HIV and wish you live for many years to come. I did want to ask if you by any chance take any type of vitamins or supplements?"
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Christine Maggiore at 3:15 p.m. ET
Thank you very much. I would like to clarify that my decisions are not based on beliefs but extensive research.
With regard to vitamins and supplements, when I tested positive, I got frightened into taking a variety of nutritional supplements and eating an organic whole food diet that I still practice today. Ironically, since testing positive, I have enjoyed the best health of my life and plan to continue making healthy choices.
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Moderator at 3:16 p.m. ET
Lin asks: "To what do you attribute your good health?"
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Christine Maggiore at 3:18 p.m. ET
I was fortunate to be able to examine all sides of the issue with an open mind and to make choices that have worked for me. Not living with the chronic hopelessness, fear and dependency on an ever-vacillating AIDS authority system allows me to enjoy a healthy attitude toward life. I also love my family and having that blessing is the greatest inspiration to me.
I just want to emphasize that I am not unique. There are hundreds, thousands of HIV-positives world wide, from Arkansas to Zambia, who live in health and defy the established beliefs about HIV and AIDS.
Our voices and our stories are rarely heard, which to me is one of the greatest tragedies of AIDS. We offer inspiration, hope and possibilities for alternative research and are ignored, dismissed or as in the case of Dr. Matilda Krim declared "delusional."
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Moderator at 3:22 p.m. ET
Ron asks: "How does Christine explain the fact that these toxic treatments REVERSE symptoms displayed in advanced cases?"
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Christine Maggiore at 3:27 p.m. ET
Great question!
The Lazarus effect, widely reported in the media following the release of the new AIDS drugs in 1996, has never been shown to occur within the confines of any controlled medical study.
I certainly do not deny and am very happy for cases in which these powerful drugs have provided people with short-term, sometimes lifesaving health benefits. However, the most recent scientific data shows this effect sometimes occurs because the drugs, contrary to common assumptions, are not HIV-specific — that is, they wipe out the proteases that cause such AIDS-defining illnesses as PCP pneumonia and candida.
We must also remember that these drugs were released a full year after AIDS deaths had peaked in this country and three years after AIDS cases had been declining.
And in 1996 — the banner year for claims of wondrous results — according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control, less than 20% of HIV-positives who "needed" these drugs actually held prescriptions for them.
One more important point: Since 1993, when we changed the definition of AIDS in this country to include people who test HIV-positive and are clinically healthy and symptom-free, but who have, at any one time, a T-cell count of 200 or less, more than half of our AIDS cases have been diagnosed in perfectly healthy people. If you consider that for the past 8 years the majority of AIDS victims are clinically well, we could reasonably expect to see the improved survival rate popularly attributed to the availability of the new drugs.
The AIDS definition has been changed several times. To learn more, I urge you to log on to the Alive & Well Web site (www.questionaids.com) where you can read the first 10 chapters of my book for free.
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Moderator at 3:34 p.m. ET
Christopher Volpe writes: "If Ms. Maggiore does not believe that HIV causes AIDS, then does she offer any speculation on what *does* cause AIDS? After all, the disease unquestionably exists, and many people have died from it."
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Christine Maggiore at 3:42 p.m. ET
I absolutely do not deny that AIDS exists and has been a devastating human tragedy. I personally have lost countless friends and colleagues during my years at AIDS service organizations.
I do question the very narrow officially-sanctioned approaches to understanding and resolving AIDS. I don't believe that the practice of grouping 29 disconnected, disparate diseases under a single category called "AIDS" facilitates scientific progress, the identifying of practical, healthy, individualized solutions or brings us any closer to understanding the mechanism of immune suppression.
It's important to understand that all of the diseases and conditions called AIDS have well-known causes and treatments that have nothing to do with HIV and that they all can and do occur in people who are HIV-negative. All these conditions pre-date the use of the category "AIDS" and all pre-date the discovery of HIV.
I would urge you to visit the study proposal at our website, (Search for Solutions,) which is our own approach to resolving AIDS through individualized diagnosis and non-toxic therapies based on specific need.
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Moderator at 3:45 p.m. ET
Eva asks: "How do you know that you are not simply an exception to the general public, that maybe you have something within your body (a gene or an antibody) which makes you less vulnerable to AIDS than others?"
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Christine Maggiore at 3:55 p.m. ET
I know too many HIV-positives from every ethnic background imaginable, from most every country in the world who are just like me, and I find what we have in common is not a specific ancestry as many scientists currently believe but our choices to stay away from toxic, health-compromising drugs and to engage in open-minded investigation of these important issues.
Also, in 1992, I was part of an HIV-positive women's support group. Most of the women were married to men who had also tested positive. These women ranged from Latina to Thai, Japanese, Eastern European. We noticed that their husbands who were on the drugs and presumably "infected with the same strain of the virus" all died while their wives, who for one reason or another were not taking the drugs, were fine — devastated and worried, but fine.
To me this indicates that ethnic make-up or the idea of certain strains affecting outcome are not well-founded, and I see no properly-prepared scientific research suggesting otherwise.
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Moderator at 3:56 p.m. ET
Rowen123 writes: "Do you mean to tell me that I lost my son to AIDS in 1995 because he was diagnosed with HIV positive in 1988 and then went into FULL BLOWN AIDS, in February 1992, and then died in April 1995, because he took the drugs for AIDS??? If he hadn't taken the drugs, would he still be alive today???"
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Christine Maggiore at 4:02 p.m. ET
As a parent, my heart goes out to you. I can only begin to imagine the pain and tragedy.
I'm not a medical doctor, and even the best doctor could not responsibly or accurately offer an explanation for your son's death without access to his complete medical records.
If you're willing and able to explore the possibility that given all his options and choices there may have been a different outcome for your son, I would be happy to forward his medical records and history to a pathologist on our scientific advisory board who would engage in what's known as a "differential diagnosis" — that is, a diagnosis based on the factual data contained in his medical records rather than the assumption that HIV was the cause of his illness and death.
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Moderator at 4:04 p.m. ET
Our thanks to Christine Maggiore and all those who posted questions.
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In Reply to: Re: Trusting doctors posted by Raisa on September 03, 2001 at 18:12:47:
Do you think that perhaps the author wrote the book kind of "tongue in cheek"?
No, I don't think so. It's recommended in a few places on the Internet as a real source of nutritional information for people with HIV/AIDS. HIV/AIDS connection is another huge topic (http://www.duesberg.com/).
If a person is positive that death from AIDS can't be avoided in his lifetime, why shouldn't he enjoy life and try to put on weight by eating what he enjoys?
It's the person's choice. If he's lost hope to be healthy again, he'll do much worse than if he had remained optimistic, in my opinion. By putting on fat, which eating carbs does (think of grain fed animals to gain fat), will further diminish his health. On the other hand, eating protein rich foods (a certain protein powder that I read about on a web site mentioned below) is known to increase lean muscle mass. Adequate amount of protein is needed for a well functioning immune system. While searching for acne cure, I stumbled upon a web site called Keep Hope Alive (http://www.execpc.com/~keephope/keephope.html). It's a site about "Self-help for the immune compromised (HIV and other STD's, Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, Food Allergies, Candidiasis, Cancer and much more)". From what I've read, people with full blown AIDS can restore their immune systems. But one must have hope and focus one's attention and efforts on this.
I don't believe that the man who wrote that book meant any harm
Me neither. He just didn't know any better, and that is sad.
In Reply to: Re: Trusting doctors posted by R. on September 03, 2001 at 19:25:23:
It's very sad. All I know is that my cousin wanted very much to live and would have done anything, eaten anything, etc. His hopes would rise then fall again. He never gave up. I remember that he got so excited because he drank a can of non-alcoholic beer and gained weight. Of course it was only liquid. But he never gave up hope and always talked about the future, and I could tell that it wasn't just to make others feel better - he really believed it.
In Reply to: Re: Trusting doctors posted by Alive and Well on September 03, 2001 at 19:11:50:
This is exactly my current opinion on HIV/AIDS connection after perusing Dr. Duesberg's web site.
A coworker of mine told me of a story in Sacramento Bee about types of experiments being done in this area. They ("experts", "scientists", etc.) still try to prove this connection. And guess how they do that. According to that newspaper story, they inject monkeys with AIDS drugs and HIV. This is somehow is supposed to clarify things. Anyone with at least half a brain should be able to see the "unscientificness" (is there such a word?) of these experiments. More scietific experiments, in which animals are injected with HIV only, have not produced AIDS in them.
In Reply to: Re: Trusting doctors posted by R. on September 03, 2001 at 19:40:19:
"Anyone with at least half a brain should be able to see the "unscientificness" (is there such a word?) "
If every doctor will have and use this "at least half brain" we will be able to wipe out many illnesses.
Unfortunatelly many doctors are either brainless either brains of many doctors are rarely used and are not greater than that of scavenging rats!
In Reply to: Re: Trusting doctors posted by Alive and Well on September 03, 2001 at 19:11:50:
In Reply to: Re: Trusting doctors posted by Raisa on September 03, 2001 at 19:36:07:
I forgot to say that my cousin had AIDS in the 1980's. He got pneumonia, and then was diagnosed with AIDS. He was in perfect health up until then, and as you know, very little was known about the disease. Still, he lived nine years and fought very hard to stay healthy. I'm sure he would have felt as you do about that book - that the author was ignorant. Or perhaps he hoped it would be controversial and sell a lot of copies.
In Reply to: Re: Trusting doctors posted by Alive and Well on September 03, 2001 at 19:11:50:
EXCELLENT info!! i was just about to post info about Christine Maggiore's book which i just read, "What If Everything You Thought You Knew About AIDS Was Wrong?"
anyone remotely interested in either HIV/AIDS *or* misinformation and propaganda in the health care world in general, this book is incredible. PLEASE read it. it can change your life and has for many people.
In Reply to: Trusting doctors posted by R. on September 03, 2001 at 17:34:46:
Thanks, R.!
Namaste`
Walt
In Reply to: Re: Trusting doctors (Archive in AIDS.) posted by Walt Stoll on September 05, 2001 at 08:53:31:
I have been to so many docters in the last year apoxs 6 and none of the docters have helped me with my low back problem.Severl of these docters were working for the insurance companys and they do not care about my problems.
All they look at and say is that you are trying to get money.wayne
In Reply to: Re: Trusting doctors (Archive in AIDS.) posted by wayne on September 05, 2001 at 13:15:23:
Wayne, if you still have your back problems, consider NST if you haven't already.
In Reply to: NST or Bowen therapy for your back problems posted by R. on September 05, 2001 at 16:22:44:
WOW! That sounds awesome. Too bad there is no practitioner in my town. . Thanks for posting that, R! Joan in AZ :)
In Reply to: Re: Trusting doctors posted by Monkey see monkey DO! on September 03, 2001 at 19:45:59:
I'm not convinced of the HIV/AIDS connection either.
VF
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In Reply to: A new HIV/AIDS Network for POZ prevention information, resources and support posted by Dave Browne on October 12, 2001 at 08:16:32:
Thanks, Dave.
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