Chinese herbalist fined for giving banned medicine

[Guest guest]

Hi all,

 

See this bad publicity caused by a native Chinese doctor in the UK.

I hope she gets struck off the association she belongs to and is

never allowed to practice again!

 

http://www.news.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?

xml=/news/2005/03/19/nherb19.xml

 

or

 

http://tinyurl.com/4uq92

 

Kind regards

 

Attilio D'Alberto

Doctor of (Beijing, China)

BSc (Hons) TCM MATCM

07786198900

attiliodalberto

www.attiliodalberto.com

[Guest guest]

Sorry, should of copy and pasted the whole article, rather than just giving

a link. See full article below:

 

Chinese herbalist fined for giving banned medicine

By Duncan Gardham and Celia Hall, Health Editor

(Filed: 19/03/2005)

 

A Chinese alternative therapist was fined £30,000 yesterday for offering

patients a series of life-threatening slimming drugs.

 

One patient treated by Anna Yang was rushed to hospital hallucinating and

suffering from the early signs of poisoning. Others were referred by their

GPs after suffering breathing difficulties and heart palpitations from

taking pills.

 

Yesterday Judge William Kennedy told her: " This case has its background in

the almost mystic trust in which people hold Chinese medicine.

 

" You chose, after a distinguished medical career, to trade in Chinese

medicine and you chose to do so in the UK. In doing so you had an absolute

obligation to comply with all the regulations put in place to ensure the

safety of UK citizens. "

 

Mrs Yang, 48, a divorced mother of two adopted children, came to Britain

from China in 1992.

 

Soon afterwards she opened a shop called the Herb Garden, along with an

acupuncture clinic. In court it was described as a " flourishing business "

with 5,000 customers.

 

Miss Yang also ran a web site on which she described herself as " MD, MSc

(China) " adding: " As if that was not enough, her parents in China are both

medical professors. "

 

She said she had worked in China as a house surgeon specialising in

dermatology and boasted of her 25 years of dealing with patients, but the

court heard that she had never registered with the General Medical Council

in this country.

 

She bought a £385,000 four-bedroom detached home in Leigh-on-Sea, Essex,

along with a flat over the shop and another semi-detached house nearby, and

sent her children to private schools.

 

The court heard she charged one patient, Jacqueline Wakeling, £1,651, for a

course of yellow pills containing the banned drug, fenfluramine

hydrochloride.

 

It increases serotonin, giving the good feeling of a full stomach, but it is

also potentially fatal - causing constriction of the arteries, high blood

pressure, fatigue and shortness of breath.

 

The Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency was alerted after a

young woman, Paula Williams, was rushed to Southend General Hospital.

 

Alison Hunter, prosecuting, said: " Miss Williams called Miss Yang and she

went to her home where she saw the situation and forced her to be sick,

showing that she was clearly aware of the potential dangers of these drugs. "

 

Officers from the MHRA raided Miss Yang's shop and found products containing

several restricted medicines.

 

Yesterday Miss Yang was sentenced at Snaresbrook Crown Court to 80 hours'

community service, fined £30,000 and ordered to pay £20,000 costs after

pleading guilty to 10 offences under the Medicines Control Act 1968.

 

Karl Metcalfe, the consultant physician who treated many of Miss Yang's

customers, called yesterday for the compulsory registration of Chinese

medical practitioners.

 

The MHRA said it would launch a registration scheme for over-the-counter

herbal medicines in October and added that the Department of Health was also

planning to introduce statutory regulation for the herbal medicine

profession.

 

Kind regards

 

Attilio D'Alberto

Doctor of (Beijing, China)

BSc (Hons) TCM MATCM

07786198900

attiliodalberto

<http://www.attiliodalberto.com/> www.attiliodalberto.com

 

 

[attiliodalberto]

23 March 2005 12:18

Chinese Medicine

Chinese herbalist fined for giving banned medicine

 

 

 

Hi all,

 

See this bad publicity caused by a native Chinese doctor in the UK.

I hope she gets struck off the association she belongs to and is

never allowed to practice again!

 

http://www.news.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?

xml=/news/2005/03/19/nherb19.xml

 

or

 

http://tinyurl.com/4uq92

 

Kind regards

 

Attilio D'Alberto

Doctor of (Beijing, China)

BSc (Hons) TCM MATCM

07786198900

attiliodalberto

www.attiliodalberto.com

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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