Florida naturopath facing charges after treating girl’s fatal leukemia with vitamins and vegan diet

[progressoid]

A controversial herbal “healer” and naturopath is under fire after the death of a teen girl he was treating for leukemia using a strict vegan diet and herbal supplements.

The Canadian Broadcasting Company reported on the death of the teen girl, who was from one of Ontario, Canada’s aboriginal First Nation tribes. Another teen girl from the same community is still in the care of Brian Clement, who Florida officials have ordered to stop practicing medicine and calling himself a doctor.

Clement operates the Hippocrates Institute, a spa-cum-clinic in Orlando, Florida where patients with serious diseases have been treated with what the state of Florida is calling “unproven and possibly dangerous therapies.”

Clement urges his patients to forego conventional medicine like chemotherapy in favor of veganism, supplements, juices and a raw diet.

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The Post said that Clement claims to have cured “thousands and thousands” of terminally ill people of their ailments.


More with a CBC video at: http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2015/02/florida-naturopath-facing-charges-after-treating-girls-fatal-leukemia-with-vitamins-and-vegan-diet/

Asshole.

[HuckleB]

1. This guy is a scam artist of scam artists.

Ugly. Ugly. Ugly.

Another take on it:

http://www.sciencebasedmedicine.org/brian-clement-and-the-hippocrates-health-institute-finally-under-the-spotlight/

[Dorian Gray]

5. It's

evil and criminal and abhorrent what he is doing. He is targeting desperate families who want to save their children. AWFUL!

[HuckleB]

2. BTW, I think it would be good to post this in GD, too!

[progressoid]

3. Okey Dokey.

Done.

[mopinko]

4. this is the trouble with "alternative medicine"

i dont care if you want to buy a placebo for your headaches, but when someone in that mindset gets truly sick......