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Everyone has heard about the doctor from SC who prescribed steroids to NFL players, but here is how he made headlines before this caught the media's attention.
http://www.quackwatch.org/11Ind/shortt.html
Suit Alleges Death from IV Hydrogen Peroxide
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James Michael Shortt, M.D., who practices "longevity medicine" in Greenville, South Carolina, is being sued by the survivors of Katherine Ann Kurtz-Bibeau, a 53-year-old Minnesota woman who died in March 2004 after undergoing intravenous hydrogen peroxide treatment for multiple sclerosis. The clinic where Shortt works and the pharmacy that supplied the product are also named as defendants. The lawsuit alleges:
Shortt had told the woman that her disease was caused by an unknown bacteria or virus and that "oxidative therapy" was good at killing it.
Following the first treatment session, she complained of abdominal pain and nausea. Two days later, she informed Shortt that she had bruises on her arm, blood in her urine, and vaginal bleeding, but he neither evaluated her nor referred her for evaluation elsewhere.
On the following day, she sought emergency care for widespread bruising and was found to have a profoundly low platelet count and multiple organ failure. (A shortage of platelets causes abnormal bleeding.) She died two days later.
The autopsy report attributed her death to complications caused by the hydrogen peroxide infusion, which the pathologist said "had no legitimate use . . . in the medical literature."
On September 30, 2004, the South Carolina State Board of Medical Examiners filed a motion to suspend Shortt's medical license on grounds of unprofessional conduct related to his treatment of Kurtz-Bibeau and a married couple who had paid more than $65,000. The motion stated that the man, who had advanced prostate cancer, had been improperly treated with testosterone and laetrile and that both had been treated for nonexistent Lyme disease.
http://www.quackwatch.org/11Ind/shortt.html
Suit Alleges Death from IV Hydrogen Peroxide
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James Michael Shortt, M.D., who practices "longevity medicine" in Greenville, South Carolina, is being sued by the survivors of Katherine Ann Kurtz-Bibeau, a 53-year-old Minnesota woman who died in March 2004 after undergoing intravenous hydrogen peroxide treatment for multiple sclerosis. The clinic where Shortt works and the pharmacy that supplied the product are also named as defendants. The lawsuit alleges:
Shortt had told the woman that her disease was caused by an unknown bacteria or virus and that "oxidative therapy" was good at killing it.
Following the first treatment session, she complained of abdominal pain and nausea. Two days later, she informed Shortt that she had bruises on her arm, blood in her urine, and vaginal bleeding, but he neither evaluated her nor referred her for evaluation elsewhere.
On the following day, she sought emergency care for widespread bruising and was found to have a profoundly low platelet count and multiple organ failure. (A shortage of platelets causes abnormal bleeding.) She died two days later.
The autopsy report attributed her death to complications caused by the hydrogen peroxide infusion, which the pathologist said "had no legitimate use . . . in the medical literature."
On September 30, 2004, the South Carolina State Board of Medical Examiners filed a motion to suspend Shortt's medical license on grounds of unprofessional conduct related to his treatment of Kurtz-Bibeau and a married couple who had paid more than $65,000. The motion stated that the man, who had advanced prostate cancer, had been improperly treated with testosterone and laetrile and that both had been treated for nonexistent Lyme disease.
