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friendly_iconoclast

(15,333 posts)
Wed Aug 28, 2013, 07:24 PM Aug 2013

Iridologist 'wrong to treat cancer patient'

http://www.stuff.co.nz/dominion-post/news/9095158/Iridologist-wrong-to-treat-cancer-patient


Iridologist 'wrong to treat cancer patient'
TALIA SHADWELL
Last updated 06:55 28/08/2013

A leading naturopath has criticised an iridologist for treating a woman with a festering lesion on her head - saying she should have realised it was a case for doctors.

Te Horo iridologist Ruth Nelson, 72, should have declined to treat Yvonne Maine when first faced with the rotting, oozing lump on the Feilding grandmother's head, naturopath Phillip Cottingham told the Human Rights Review Tribunal yesterday.

By the time Mrs Maine saw surgeons about the lesion, it was cancerous and had grown so big that her brain was exposed. She received palliative surgery, but died in June 2010...

...Witnesses have testified that 16 months of Mrs Nelson's services included picking at Mrs Maine's lesion with tweezers, applying herbal poultices, and tapping her forehead while repeating positive affirmations...


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Iridologist 'wrong to treat cancer patient' (Original Post) friendly_iconoclast Aug 2013 OP
That makes me quite queasy Rainforestgoddess Aug 2013 #1
but complimentary medicine does no harm we are told...nt uriel1972 Aug 2013 #2
In reading the article, what saddens me the most is that SheilaT Aug 2013 #3
 

SheilaT

(23,156 posts)
3. In reading the article, what saddens me the most is that
Thu Aug 29, 2013, 01:48 PM
Aug 2013

Mrs. Maine, the woman with the festering lesion, did not herself have the good sense to seek conventional treatment.

All too often, people believe what they want to believe, regardless of any evidence to the contrary.

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