Hippocrates Institute under fire for treating 2 young Canadian girls with Leukemia

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Ok this is a fucked story and I'm sure all of you cancer debaters will chime in...

You guys probably heard of the Hippocrates Institute, this Florida-based place where people go to self-heal from major illnesses and addictions using a combination of raw food diets, exercise and positive thinking patterns. Founder is Brian Clement, look him up on YouTube if you don't already know him... couple good videos.

The original story: First Nation family's refusal of chemo a precedent-setting case, expert says - Aboriginal - CBC (Tldr: mother refuses chemo for her young daughters and wants to seek natural alternatives, hospital wants to sue her and take her children away from her for refusing chemo. In an interview with CBC, she said: "As a member of the Six Nations Confederacy, I will not have my decisions of health care for my child debated and judged in the Canadian judicial system.… The Canadian judicial system does not have the authority to determine our law or practices, which predates the existence of Canada, valid or otherwise.")

Follow Up Story: Florida spa that treated First Nations girls with cancer faces lawsuits - Aboriginal - CBC

So she goes to court against the hospital and wins (rightfully in my opinion), and sends both her daughters to Florida for a couple weeks at Hippocrates Institute (costing her $16,000+). It seems "Dr" Brian Clement gave a seminar within the First Nations community in Ontario so that's how she learned about him and his institute.

CBC is now all over this Brian Clement guy claiming he doesn't have any license to practice any form of medicine, and the fact the one of the little girls just "relapsed" proves it's all charlatanism...

I just saw a minute ago on the news (on TV) that apparently the mother claims her daughters have been healed from their cancer and she says both the CBC and the doctors at the McMaster Hospital are lying to protect the medical system...

What do you guys think? Who do you believe? Is this Institute really a complete fraud, or is CBC just blindly backing up the hospital and Canadian healthcare system? Also, do you think it's right that the hospital sued the mother for refusing chemo?
 


Just to be clear, we're talking about two different kids from two different mothers.

I don't have kids, so I can't really debate from an emotional parent's perspective. However, withholding medical treatment is, IMO, criminal. But I don't lay the blame on the parent desperate for a cure, but instead I blame the quacks, charlatans and religious zealots who convince them to abandon proven medical treatments for something completely bogus instead.

As far as I can tell, the first child in question, Makayla Sault, wound up back in hospital after her visit to the Hippocrates and is critically ill. Although she may still be alive, I doubt she will be for much longer.

This so called "doctor" (he's not one BTW) has a 0% success rate at curing cancer (because they can't claim they cure anything), but a 100% success rate at draining cancer sufferers bank accounts. The 3 week program costs $18,000 and they keep taking beyond that if you want additional treatment.

Take for example the case of 23 year old Stephanie O'Halloran, from Ireland, diagnosed with terminal breast cancer in August 2013. She stopped chemo and the community raised 10s, if not 100s, of thousands of pounds for her treatments at Hippocrates, and she was dead by May 2014.

Limerick mum, 23, fights terminal cancer with green diet - Limerick Leader

How the FDA/FTC lets conmen like this get away with this kind of bullshit, while pursuing berry and e cigarette sellers to the ends of the Earth, is beyond me. Wheat grass enemas and waving crystal rods about does not cure anything.

It is their very existence that allows desperate people to be conned. If these "alternative" channels didn't exist then people looking for miracles couldn't be swayed to them.
 
CBC is not giving us the full story though.

My understanding was that the mother first accepted chemo, and only withdrawed her daughter from chemo on the 10th week of treatment. Probably saw that her daughter's physical/mental state was deteriorating rapidly, or the little girl simply said mommy I can't take this anymore... which in that case the fucking hospital has no business to force her to keep coming back to the torture chamber.

Ultimately everyone should be free to seek alternative treatments.
 
Ultimately, waiting until you already have cancer to decide to eat a balanced and largely unprocessed diet is going to absolutely fuck-all to stop any remotely aggressive cancer from metastasizing throughout your body and reducing you to a human shell before killing you.

Brian Clement is a murderer and should be treated like one.

If I ever have the displeasure of meeting Brian Clement in person I will make sure to introduce him to the nearest concrete, linoleum or metal surface until he wishes he had cancer himself.

Fucking piece of human trash.
 
Just looked up a picture of Brian Clement. This guy's the living embodiment of the devil:

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