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Terminally ill mother Herald Cover story

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  • 17-09-2006 4:05am
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    Calibos
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    Anyone see the Herald the other day. The cover story was about a poor unfortunate 30yo wife and mother with apparently inoperable terminal Lung Cancer who needs €30,000 for "Pioneering" Treatment in..............Mexico??

    My Skeptic spider sense started tingling when I read that. I have an inkling about hearing of some place in Mexico giving false hope to terminally ill people ages ago.

    Anyone read the article or have further info on the Clinic in Mexico?


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    robindch
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    > Anyone read the article or have further info on the Clinic in Mexico?

    I didn't see the article in the Herald, but a quick google shows that there are quite a few outfits in Mexico which offer a range of untested treatments. Most of the clinics seem to be pretty close to the US border too, so one assumes that they've set up there to be easily accessible by wealthy, but terminally-ill, patients coming in from the USA.

    Here are a few links:

    http://www.cancerhelp.org.uk/help/default.asp?page=11211
    http://www.hopkinshospital.org/health_info/Cancer/Reading/alternative_cancer_treatments.html
    http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,183495,00.html


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    Myksyk
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    This sounds almost certainly like 'John of God's' clinic in Mexico. He has featured on RTE tV not so long ago. A friend of mine flew their dying brother there years ago by private air ambulance. The guy running it continued to spout "I'll cure you" even when the poor sod had deteriorated to vomiting up his own faeces. Only the aggressive intervention of his right-thinking sister got the guy home to die in peace in Ireland. Sad but true. There's plenty of info on that JoG guy on the net if you google him.


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    robindch
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    > This sounds almost certainly like 'John of God's' clinic in Mexico.

    Didn't realise JdeD/JoG had offices in Mexico, or indeed, any outside of Brazil. How many does he have around the place?


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    Myksyk
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    Yeah ... Robin ... thanks for the clarification. Must be someone else. I instinctively thought JoG - a geographical error on my part. Probably his cousin tho' ... :)


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