Hero of the Month - Walt Stoll, MD

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Walt Stoll, MD
Holistic Health Hero of the Month, August 1997

Statement as of June 18, 1997

To the Best of my recollection on June 18th, l997, these are the episodes of harassment involving the Kentucky Medical Licensing Board:

Board contacted me in about 1980 about my use of chelation therapy for selected patients. I gave them 1500 references from the world literature--demonstrating the safety and effectiveness of chelation by the internationally accepted protocol. I told them I would be happy to discuss it with them when they had done their homework. I refused to spoon-feed them the information. That was when I still naively believed that they were looking for facts. They never once mentioned chelation to me again.
In about 1981, they approached me about why I had a chiropractor in my office. I told them to show me where that was unethical, illegal, or in any way against KY medical statutes. That was the end of that one.

In about 1982, they had me before the board because I was routinely adding a serum magnesium to all my basic workups. This added about $.50 to each lab cost. I shared with them more than 200 articles about the value of knowing the magnesium level in this culture. They spent less than 15 minutes passing these articles around--after spending more than four hours with the Blue Cross/Blue Shield representatives (while we waited in the anteroom) and decreed that "testing for magnesium was an experimental procedure and would not be covered by insurance". Of course now, 15 years later, the importance of magnesium levels is no longer disputed.

In about 1983, there was an official complaint by a physician in Lexington because I had told a patient of his, who had come to me, that she (a 43 year old type I diabetic) had "rampant free-radical pathology". He, an internist (supposedly a specialist in diabetes), had never heard of free-radicals. Rather than call me to find out about them, he made an official complaint to the board. It just happened that the Wall Street Journal had a front page article that week about the importance of free-radicals). I made a copy of the article and sent it back to the board with a computer search producing more than 50 articles supporting my statement. I added a letter suggesting that there was a case to be made for an "Official Complaint" to be made against such an intentionally ignorant physician who didn't even know the rudiments of his profession. I never heard another thing. Of course, now free-radicals are known by everyone.

In about 1984, there was an official complaint by a cardiac surgeon from the VA because I had mentioned on my radio show the statistics that only 11% of bypass surgeries could be justified by any scientific standard. Of course, now that is accepted by everyone but the cardiac surgeons. Within the next year, he was reported in the national media as one of the surgeons with the poorest results in the country. I had to respond even though there was no basis for his complaint. That was the first instance of their going against free speech.

In about 1986, they officially attacked me because I had been supplying one patient (out of 20+ years of practice) with 15 milligrams of amphetamine a day for many years (for intractable depression) and had only seen her several times in that period of time. I had continued to care for her chemical imbalance since she had the same problem that I did, personally, and I had treated myself the same way (with 10 milligrams a day) for nearly the same period of time. They didn't even know that the KY Medical Statutes specifically provided for that exact treatment. Her present physician (in Oregon) is treating her the same way that I did. Dr. Granacher (in Lexington)--considered at that time the top psychopharmacologist in KY--agreed that I had been treating myself correctly and prescribed the same dose for me to take. Eventually, they dropped everything for "lack of substance" as they had for all the other harassments.

In 1988, the Kentucky Medical Association maneuvered me off the PBS radio program I had done several times a week for at least four years. They did so by first threatening to withhold their financial support of the station. When that failed to get Don Wheeler, PhD, who had been manager of the station for more than 20 years, to remove me, they threatened his retirement--due in a few months. He told me that it was an issue of free speech and, once his retirement was assured, he would be more than happy to testify in any court case I might be willing to bring. This was the board's second instance of caring nothing about free speech. Of course, having gotten away with it here, they now are denying the free speech of every physician in KY by threatening to take their license if they even speak of any of this.

In about 1990, they served me with an official complaint by a woman in NY who had called me many times about her chronic problems. I had agreed to authorize a stool analysis from a lab in AZ and sent her a copy of the results along with copies of descriptions of conventional treatment from Harrisons's Principles of Internal Medicine for each of the several parasites found in her specimen. I included a list of physicians in NY who would know how to deal with something like this. When I had not heard from her in several months, I sent her a bill for about $60 to help cover the phone expenses I had incurred talking with her so many times and the calls I had made to the lab in AZ. I made no charge for any of my time since I had never seen her. She complained to the board--I'm sure just to avoid the $60 charge. When they decided to make something about it, she realized that they were saying something that was not true (that I had offered to treat her without seeing her) and refused to give them a deposition. They then said they were dropping it "for lack of substance".

In November 1994, they resurrected this charge and, since I had already been out of the state for 17 months, used it as the basis for revoking my license on November 17th. Even if the charges had been true, it was not something that anyone could have considered a basis for revocation of license. They were just betting that I would not spend my next 10 years making repeated trips back to KY from Florida to defend my license. They were right!

To avoid stimulating my anger at this injustice any more than necessary, I discarded all my records of these harassments; therefore my information is probably incomplete and the dates are approximate. In the 13+ years that I practiced strictly conventional medicine, I never had one complaint by my licensing boards. It was only after I began to offer my patients options not included in the Allopathic Monopoly that I began to get served by complaints. This parallels exactly what many of my colleagues, throughout the country, have experienced (and are presently experiencing) as the monopoly tries to destroy any possible competition. They destroy the individual physician by removing his license to practice and thus his means of support.

Respectfully submitted,

Walt Stoll, MD
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