Doctor allegedly used weed killer on patients

[Guest guest]

Similiar cases keep happening in India giving genuine alternative

practitioners a bad name. Some time back a highly reputed physician

who had got himself photographed with Presidents and Prime Ministers

was exposed when his " herbal drugs " were found to be psychotropic

chemicals. He claimed to be an epilespsy specialist.

 

We have to educate people about what is genuine alternative therapy

and also their right to medical information. Thus the need for groups

such as this.

 

Regards,

Jagannath.

 

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Doctor allegedly used weed killer on patients

Prosecutors say people with cancer, other diseases injected with insecticide

 

The Associated Press

Updated: 6:16 a.m. ET Dec. 21, 2005

 

ATLANTA - Federal prosecutors say a doctor treated patients with cancer and

other life-threatening diseases with weed killer and insecticide.

Dr. Totada Shanthaveerappa, 70, and a medical assistant face 87 counts,

including health care fraud and distributing unapproved and misbranded drugs.

The doctor is also charged with money laundering.

According to prosecutors, Shanthaveerappa owns and operates Integrated Medical

Specialists and Integrated Chemotherapy Specialists in Stockbridge.

The clinic’s Web site says it provides “safe and effective, nontoxic,

scientifically based alternative methods that can cure or control most cancer

and other chronic disease.”

Prosecutors said the doctor and assistant Dan Bartoli, 63, injected numerous

patients with unapproved and misbranded drugs, including Dinithrophenol, a

commercial-grade weed killer and insecticide.

The two men also submitted false insurance claims which disguised the types of

drugs and treatments they were providing, according to the indictment.

Prosecutors did not claim that anyone suffered any direct harm from the

treatments.

Shanthaveerappa and Bartoli did not immediately return telephone calls Tuesday

night.

 

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