Scientologist FELINE BUTCHER supposed to stand trial Sept 9th , trial suddenly postponed until sometime in November.
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TEAM KRUEZER finds it fascinating that T.C's Scientologist heath guru
FELINE BUTCHER was supposed to stand trial on September 9th but the
trial was suddenly postponed until sometime in November. Butcher is
charged in LA Superior Court with 18 counts of violation of the
Business and Professions Code of the State of California.
Specifically, it is alleged that she has administered treatment to the
ill without the authorization required by law. She's also facing one
count of Violation of section 487(a) of the Penal Code of the State of
California, i.e. willfully and unlawfully taking the personal property
and money of Erica McLean, the widow of Clive McLean.
McLean was Larry Flynt's photographer for Hustler. The FELINE BUTCHER
connection has what some might call - actually, MANY would call - an
intimate past with MOTOWN which combined with the TOM CRUISE
affiliation, makes for a fascinating investigative matrix worthy of
the talents of star/director/investigator PAUL BARRESI.
L.A. INVESTIGATOR, GayVN winner, and PORN WORLD ICON, PAUL BARRESI is
assisting Erica pro bono. Barresi appeared in a Clive McLean photo on
the cover of Hustler in 1978.
We have learned that in the course of his extensive investigation of
Butcher, Barresi learned that from the mid 1990s to 1998, Butcher
treated and also secretly dated SMOKEY ROBINSON while still married.
After Butcher divorced her husband, Smokey dumped her.
Butcher also treated several other members of the Motown family,
including theTEMPTATIONS' baritone MELVIN FRANKLIN.
According to our Wikipedia search, Franklin died February 23, 1995 at
the age of 52 of the bacterial flesh eating disease with complications
of renal failure.
Butcher also treated Mr. Motown himself, BERRY GORDY.
Other celeb patients treated by Butcher include JAMES EARL JONES and
QUEEN LATIFAH.
As for TOM CRUISE and his spokesman's denials of ever having any
connection to Butcher, iImpeccable sources confirmed to Barresi that
Cruise in fact came to see BUTCHER on 2 occasions, but that he did not
return for a 3rd visit due to his personal distaste for her.
feministe
news:6163ac5c-d203-4b6f...@q5g2000prf.googlegroups.com...
> http://www.kruezeratnight.com/
One more pseudo MD helping scientology people to be unhealthy!
r
Eldon
still finds it.
www.nutrikon.com/people_detail.asp?co=nk&name=Feline-Butcher
Alex Clark
I thought this was some reference to Mudkips at first.
(For the uninformed, Mudkips was Sean Carasov's cat until CoS poisoned her
after he was namefagged at a picket).
Eldon
I don't think there is a connection, but her name has also been quoted
as Boucher, which would sound more like a real one. I wouldn't bet too
prophetic or metaphoric about it.
RolandRB
Means the same. Don't slit, err, i mean, split hairs. Thete is more
than one way to kill, err I mean, slit a cat's throat. There !! :o)
jerald
A lot of times when there is a postponement at this stage its so both
sides can try to come up with a plea deal. Any judge will tell you
that any case that comes to trial has already failed. So if there is
any chance of a plea they will delay the trial.
jerald
johansse...@gmail.com
I know i will get slashed for this by probably all of you.
Am I in the twilight zone here ?
Someone is guilty just because they are a Scientologist ?
The accuser must automatically be right accusing a Scientologist ?
An investigation of a Mr. Barresi, who obviously has a shady
background in the porn industry and is
also known for wrong accusations, and obviously finds it necessary to
write his own Wikipedia entry, is
above all doubt as to it's quality?
Funny thing how this gang of pornographer's throws the name of a
scientologist at you, mixes it up with
a few celebrity names and all you anti-scientologists go like rabid
dogs for a person you don't know anything
about. Except just one fact. Yes she is a Scientologist.
God, can these people play you so easily, because in your self
righteousness you are as bad or dogmatic as some
Scientologists.
I bet the "news" I am answering to are written by Mr. Barresi himself,
he tends to do blogs and other web stuff
under different names, always drawing this cool private eye picture of
himself.
You all do some more due diligence in your investigation of this man
and you will find out that he is bottom dwelling
scum.
As for the trial, it got delayed for the 5th or so time already, most
of the times the city attorneys office requested it.
And for most of the other blogs done on this particular subject, and
being sold as "news". Everyone obviously
just cuts'n'past's the same 3 year old article. Wow.
I will not judge your campaigns against scientology, but blindly
buying into something because somebody believes
in something you don't believe in is just weak.
Catholics - all guilty of inquistion and other crimes
priests - all child molesters
Muslims - all terrorists
chinese - all eat dogs
germans - all Nazis
Buddhists - all enlightened
wiccans - all devil worshippers
Funny list no ?
But it's what you do to Mrs. Butcher.
Alert
No
>
> The accuser must automatically be right accusing a Scientologist ?
No, facts as they come to light are the journey to what went down.
Butcher is a quack and charlatan, AND AN ETHICS SPECIAKIST TO BOOT!
> An investigation of a Mr. Barresi, who obviously has a shady
> background in the porn industry and is
> also known for wrong accusations, and obviously finds it necessary to
> write his own Wikipedia entry, is
> above all doubt as to it's quality?
The blog is a follow up to Feline Butcher from the 2006
investigation of her being a quack that has a dead cancer patient in
her wake and is being investigated for malpractice
From the January 9, 2006, issue of the National Enquirer:
COPS PROBE TOM CRUISE GURU
Cancer patient dies after Scientologist allegedly promises to cure him
with "magic potions"
By Doug Shields
Tom Cruise's one-time medical guru--a "Church" of Scientology member--
is at the center of a police probe into the death of a cancer patient.
And the blow to Tom comes as shocking claims about his Scientology
emerge for the first time.
Alternative medicine consultant Feline Butcher, 53, is being
investigated by the Los Angeles Health Authority Law Enforcement Task
Force, which investigates illegal medical practices, following the
death of photographer Clive McLean after he was treated by her.
She allegedly convinced McLean to shun chemotherapy in favor of magic
drops, potions, vitamins and a miracle-cure medicine.
L.A.-based Butcher, who has reportedly counted Nicole Kidman, Lisa
Marie Presley and Mena Suvari among her celebrity clients, allegedly
then referred McLean to physician David Chua, who was not licensed to
practice in California, say cops.
McLean, a veteran staff photographer for Hustler magazine founder
Larry Flynt, died soon afterward at the age of 60. His widow Erica
told a newspaper: "We didn't at first know [Butcher] was a
Scientologist, but then we heard that she made her employees take
courses in it. She said Chua could cure my husband with these magic
drops, potions and vitamin drips--and a silly machine."
Erica, who lives in Sunland, California, added: "We spent $150,000 on
all this, and my husband's health was not improving. They told him not
to take chemotherapy so we didn't."
The Task Force, who work with the police, has presented the case to
the L.A. city attorney after an investigation following McLean's death
in March 2005. If Butcher is indicted she could face trial for fraud,
grand theft and the unlicensed practice of medicine. Canadian Chua
could also be charged.
Said Sgt. Steve Opferman: "We are looking into the fact that she was
referring people to this guy who was coming down from Canada claiming
to have cures for cancer patients. If you are going to do that and
charge huge sums, you need a license.
Butcher didn't return calls for a comment but has previously said the
charges are untrue.
The latest blow for Cruise's controversial "church"--for which he is
now the public figurehead--comes as amazing details of his induction
into the "religion" were revealed.
Ex-Scientologists have told the Los Angeles Times how Cruise, 43, was
treated "like a king" when he studied at the "church"'s international
nerve center in Gilman Hot Springs, with an around-the-clock staff
preparing his meals and doing his laundry. The report also said David
Miscavige, the "church"'s highest-ranking member, was instrumental in
helping Cruise woo his second wife Nicole Kidman soon after they first
met around 15 years ago.
According to the Times, he is said to have once ordered "church"
workers to toil day and night to plant a meadow of wildflowers so
Cruise could run through the field arm in arm with the Australian
actress.
When the flowers bloomed Miscavige, 45, is reported to have demanded
the field be re-planted because he wasn't happy with it.
Mike Rinder, director of the "Church" of Scientology International,
said Cruise did stay at the center for several weeks in 1990 but
denied that he received special treatment.
Cruise's lawyer Bert Fields said: "I am not aware of any link between
Tom and this Feline Butcher." But he admitted Cruise studied at the
"church"'s center, adding: "Nothing special was done for him."
Both Fields and Rinder denied that fields of wildflowers were planted
for the star.
> Funny thing how this gang of pornographer's throws the name of a
> scientologist at you, mixes it up with
> a few celebrity names and all you anti-scientologists go like rabid
> dogs for a person you don't know anything
> about.
Orly?
News archives are on Google. Google is our friend. No wonder
scientology hates the Internet
> Except just one fact. Yes she is a Scientologist.
And is why the subject iis relevent to this NG
>
> God, can these people play you so easily, because in your self
> righteousness you are as bad or dogmatic as some
> Scientologists.
LOL!! DM plays you like a guitar, just like hubbard plays you for a
fool.
>
<snipped a pile of sooking based upon the probability of the author
being ordained to lie>
> I will not judge your campaigns against scientology, but blindly
> buying into something because somebody believes
> in something you don't believe in is just weak.
Blindly?
Butcher has a proven pattern of behaviour, like it or lump it.
<snipped more sooking>
> But it's what you do to Mrs. Butcher.
Butcher is the driver of her own bus. Too bad hubbard is in her head
giving her directions, not unlike *you*.
Suck it up clam, scientology is being decapitated as I type this
message. The sooner you have the ultimte cog of cog's, you will
realize that the true EP of your "applied religious philosophy" is
that you are nothing more than a player in hubbard's/Miscavige's shell
game.
Scientology can never recover from it's exposition. A whole new
generation of critics is continuing to grow. Media are no longer
afraid of the cult of scientology. The cult is becoming ever the more
desperate to try retain members. It's old ability to recruit has long
disappeared. More and more front groups of the cult are being exposed
and recognised by wogs around the world.
So, you can miraculously arrive out of nowhere to try defend a woman
that possibly accelerated the death of someone with cancer with her
quackery. It won't change or negate the long gathering momentum
against the criminal cult of scientology.
Would you like some more documented criminality of "In all the broad
Universe there is no other hope for Man than ourselves."?
Google Herb Zerden, Scott W. Snow just to name 2 more of "the only
hope for mankind"
"Somebody some day will say "this is illegal" By then be sure the
orgs say what is legal or not."
L. Ron Hubbard
www.raids.org/
http://www.xs4all.nl/~johanw/CoS/targets-defence.txt
xenubarb
happens to be a Scientologist is just the cherry on top of the whole
shit sundae that is Butcher.
--
--
barb
Chaplain, ARSCC (wdne)
"$cientology sees the world this way: One man with a picket sign:
terrorism. Five thousand people dead in a deliberate inferno: business
opportunity.
$cientology oozes _under_ terrorists to hide."
-Chris Leithiser
RolandRB
I wonder if they changed their names so something that suits their
profession as a Scientologist.
Feline Butcher
Canine Drowner
Tire Slasher
Hayngun Shooter
Slimy Lawyer
Obscene Dog
> I wonder if they changed their names so something that suits their
> profession as a Scientologist.
>
> Feline Butcher
> Canine Drowner
> Tire Slasher
> Hayngun Shooter
> Slimy Lawyer
I LOL'd
johansse...@gmail.com
>
> - Show quoted text -
Nothing was answered to what I wrote impressed me.
Of course except of course that you throw an article in the National
Inquirer at me.
Thats a trustworthy source right there.
Everything else you wrote and what the other guys after wrote confirms
just one thing:
It's a witch hunt.
None of you knows Ms. Butcher.
I am not a scientologist, so I don't even know in some of your answers
whats that means.
I dislike people that run like cows with a herd and mooo with what
everyone else is mooing
about, no matter what the herd is about.
I don't give a rat's behind if it is Scientology's end soon.
What I care about is that people write about something they know.
I guess most of you have met Ms. Butcher, and have an informed opinion
about her.
Oh I forgot. Not necessary. She's a Scientologist.
lmfao
lmfao
xenubarb
Obscene Dog
> Identifying quacks...it ain't rocket science: http://www.drclark.net/
OLOL!
Dr. Hulda Regehr Clark Ph.D., N.D.
She'll "unburder" your immune system and cure your full blown AIDS with
her "tooth zappercatior".
Hell yeah.
Howard
>
<major snippage>
>
> Nothing was answered to what I wrote impressed me.
> Of course except of course that you throw an article in the National
> Inquirer at me. Thats a trustworthy source right there.
>
> Everything else you wrote and what the other guys after wrote confirms
> just one thing:
>
> It's a witch hunt. None of you knows Ms. Butcher.
>
> I am not a scientologist, so I don't even know in some of your answers
> whats that means. I dislike people that run like cows with a herd and
> mooo with what everyone else is mooing about, no matter what the herd
> is about.
>
> I don't give a rat's behind if it is Scientology's end soon.
>
> What I care about is that people write about something they know.
> I guess most of you have met Ms. Butcher, and have an informed opinion
> about her.
>
> Oh I forgot. Not necessary. She's a Scientologist.
Hi MJ
And given your IP addy, presumably you are a loyal Nutrikon
employee/associate? I wonder what your opinion of David Chuah is.
See URL:
http://articles.latimes.com/2006/feb/05/local/me-fraud5
Howard
--
hedmundoatmacmaildotcom
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> Nothing was answered to what I wrote impressed me.
Sorry to tell you, sweet cheeeks, but it aint about "impressing"
anyone.
You need to exorcise hubbard out of you psyche and get back to
reality.
You miraculously arrive in this thread, a full 7 days after it was
left idle, and think >I< am interested in you being "impressed"?
Youre just another ordained to lie scientologist. Your applied
religious philosophy is all about the greater ghood for the cult of
scientology. And seeing one of the recent responses above mine, I
wouldnt take much opf what you had to say seriously.
Cry and snap your shell until the tide washes in, it wont change the
fact Feline Butcher, is a BUTCHER.
> Of course except of course that you throw an article in the National
> Inquirer at me.
Just because you are either incapable of searching any online source
to reports by Police of an investigation in the Felony(LOL@Barb!), or
are inept by way of "pretended knowingness", doesnt mean the facts
arent there to be found
> Thats a trustworthy source right there.
> ...
YOU wouldnt know what "trustworthy" was if it bit you on the arse.
LaFayette Ronald Hubbard/scientology granted you THAT "beingness"
Please keep chiming in to defend the indefensible, you are helping the
ultimate win.
> read more »
johansse...@gmail.com
>
> - Show quoted text -
You keep implying that i am a Scientologist.
Sorry laddy, that don't work. I am not.
But of course you don't have to care,
because of course I am lying Scientologist pretending not
to be one.
(Is it me or is that just brilliantly convenient to discredit whatever
I say ?)
Has it occurred to you that I might be a non-scientologist
that happens to know a Scientologist, that leads an
examplary life and has truly helped hundreds of people
in changing their diets and life style to become healthier?
You keep repeating that I come out of nowhere into a blog that was
idle for 7 days
and such.
Well i guess blogging is not my life, I didn't see it earlier. Sorry.
One of my crusades is to fight companies like Monsanto.
I know that has nothing to do with this particular blog, but there you
have a danger
that is much deadlier and quicker to destroy humanity than
Scientology.
So you guys think of me (or not) whatever you want.
But i guess i already know.
MJ
Obscene Dog
> Has it occurred to you that I might be a non-scientologist that happens
> to know a Scientologist, that leads an examplary life and has truly
> helped hundreds of people in changing their diets and life style to
> become healthier?
Has it occured to you that the person you know leads an exemplary life in
spite of the Cult, not because of it?
What are the changes in diet and life style this person recommends?
johansse...@gmail.com
Hehe,
I like that.
Well, I think that is possible.
But I think it is also what that person does with their religion, or
cult or whatever you wanna call it.
My theorem is, wherever there is power and money there will be
corruption and and abuse.
Thats why I personally refuse to belong to any group, because people
in power positions can
turn disgusting and I do not condone that for any reason.
Also groups tend to, a degree, to become dogmatic. Thats very scary
too, since you can't really
argue with such people anymore.
As far as her programs go, it's not rocket science.
The right balance between veggies, proteins and carbs.
Keep working out.
Eat organic.
No alcohol or tobacco.
No processed foods
More small meals during the day instead of one or two big ones.
The trick for anybody in nutrition is actually to have people
comply with something as simple as this.
MJ
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No, youy implicate yourself by your reasoning and barking about
Butcher being unfairly lambasted for being a butcher
> Sorry laddy, that don't work. I am not.
Oh, it's like "I am not a scientologist, but"?
> But of course you don't have to care,
Therein lays the rub. The vast majority of critics of scientology *do*
"care", and is why they are always in the foreground exposing the cult
of scientology for the psychopolitical belief system that remove all
its critics from the face of the earth. You know, just like Tom Cruise
said about SP's being "in the history books"?
> because of course I am lying Scientologist pretending not
> to be one.
Three words...
Pattern
of
behaviour
> (Is it me or is that just brilliantly convenient to discredit whatever
> I say ?)
I dont have to discredit anything at all. You miraculously arrive to
this anti-scientology NG, with your very first post, positioning
yourself in such a fashion.
>
> Has it occurred to you that I might be a non-scientologist
> that happens to know a Scientologist, that leads an
> examplary life and has truly helped hundreds of people
> in changing their diets and life style to become healthier?
Oh noze!! Scientology leads to a healthier lifestyle because of
testimonials and anecdotal evidence and nothing more than those 2
words of "it works".
Darlink, reality by way of agreement makes for the most flimsiest of
realities. Especially when the opposing view occupies your own space
and fails to "agree" and obliterates your hopes to obtain an actuality
by way of agreement
>
> You keep repeating that I come out of nowhere into a blog that was
> idle for 7 days
> and such.
"Repeating"?
I should do a word and phrase count, should I?
MMkay.
Sep 24th Sept (in the AU), I didnt mention the CONvenience of your
arrival in my very first response to your obfucastion .
Would you like the direct link, in case youre so inept that you cannot
scroll back a few posts as such?
Oct 1 (again from the AU) I make a singular mention of the CON
venience of your very first post being in relation to your whining
that Feline Butcher is a filthy rotten scientologist that deserves
jail time for her crimes.
But THAT wont stop you from being a deceptive and lying scumbag that
wouldnt even admit to being a scientologist, because youre ordained to
lie for the greatest good acrooss the greater number of human(the
church) dynamics.
> Well i guess blogging is not my life,
Yet, it is enough that your very first post should be in defence of
Felony Butcher?
Cut it out you simpleton
> I didn't see it earlier.
Oh how CONvenient of you to make such an admission
> Sorry.
*This* I can understand, by those who possess REAL sorrow and remorse.
You dont, because youve already predetermined what you viewpoint is
and are a lying sack of crap.
>I< am sorry for YOU. Because you have that insane lunatic dictating your every 'determinism' and 'reality' inside your head, and most likely to the very core of your psyche.
You are so convinced of your superior intellect, that you will never
grasp that actuality that applying scientology actually makes you
incredibly stupid and predictable.
If you had half a brain, youd've used an old username that would've
lead to a profgile of past posting that was more than one.
It is your own CONvenient arrival, coupled with your viewpoint/defense
of Butcher, that hangs the cloud over your own head
> One of my crusades is to fight companies like Monsanto.
Oh, sop youre a "crusasder" are you?
No shit, Sherlock.
*snort
> I know that has nothing to do with this particular blog,
But yet, you'll use it as an obfuscation in your asshattery of being a
clam running in to defend Felony Buthcer.
I notice how you totyally avoid Howard's question of you.
How CONvenient?
Here, in case you missed(more like you pooped and hoped no one
noticed) Howard's question/statement.
QUOTE>Hi MJ
And given your IP addy, presumably you are a loyal Nutrikon
employee/associate? I wonder what your opinion of David Chuah is.
See URL:
http://articles.latimes.com/2006/feb/05/local/me-fraud5
Howard
--
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> but there you
> have a danger
> that is much deadlier and quicker to destroy humanity than
> Scientology.
Wrong NG, snapperhead. But you already knew *that*.
This aint a shell game for the uninitiated, you silly scientologit
>
> So you guys think of me (or not) whatever you want.
Um, no. People will formulate a perception or viewpoint based on YOUR
posts.
Of course, past posting can help. Just as a CONvenient arrival can
help also
> But i guess i already know.
Is that like "knowing how to know" or "knowing how to not-know"
Asin, being a fundamental of your thought processing?
>
> MJ
Interesting intials.
Are they an acronym for
Major
Joke
?
johansse...@gmail.com
>
> > but there you
> > have a danger
> > that is much deadlier and quicker to destroy humanity than
> > Scientology.
>
> Wrong NG, snapperhead. But you already knew *that*.
> This aint a shell game for the uninitiated, you silly scientologit
>
>
>
> > So you guys think of me (or not) whatever you want.
>
> Um, no. People will formulate a perception or viewpoint based on YOUR
> posts.
> Of course, past posting can help. Just as a CONvenient arrival can
> help also
>
> > But i guess i already know.
>
> Is that like "knowing how to know" or "knowing how to not-know"
>
> Asin, being a fundamental of your thought processing?
>
>
>
> > MJ
>
> Interesting intials.
>
> Are they an acronym for
> Major
> Joke
>
> - Show quoted text -
WOW.
If I'd say:
"Good Morning, how are you today ?"
You'd still be proving me to be a scientologist.
And I don't know Chuah personally.
And I leave your playground alone.
Waste of time for any voice of reason.
You win :)
MJ (might have to do with my name)
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Attorney Graham Berry has asked that I inform readers that
Scientologist Feline Butcher's trial is now taking place in Los
Angeles. Sources say that few spectators have been attending the trial
except Scientologists. Her trial is being held in the Criminal
Courthouse (downtown Los
Angeles) 210 West Temple
Street - 3rd Floor Room 41,
8:30 - 4:00
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Date: Tue, 21 Oct 2008 18:58:01 -0700 (PDT)
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Attorney Graham Berry has asked that I inform readers that
Scientologist Feline Butcher's trial is now taking place in Los
Angeles. Sources say that few spectators have been attending the trial
except Scientologists.
Her trial is being held in the Criminal Courthouse (downtown Los
Angeles)
210 West Temple Street - 3rd
Floor
Room 41, 8:30 - 4:00
"Rev" Norle Enturbulata, OD, DTS
"Alert" <flickin...@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:6fdcd42e-0def-4265...@l42g2000hsc.googlegroups.com...
They ought to put her parents on trial for naming her that...
Dr. Stephen Maturin's camphorated tincture
Feline Butcher (aka, Feline Kondula, aka; Feline Kondula Butcher:
[google])
"Nutri-Kon"
http://www.nutrikon.com/
Feline's 'PR' Bio:
http://www.nutrikon.com/people_detail.asp?co=nk&name=Feline-Butcher
snip>
Nutritional Consultant:
Feline Kondula Butcher, Administrative Director and Founder of Nutrikon"
Nutrikon 'Detox' program:
http://www.nutrikon.com/services.asp?Service=Detoxification
"People link" (Staff) at Nutrikon/
http://www.nutrikon.com/people.asp?co=scwc
snip>
People
Dr. Charles E. Law, Jr. MD, FACEP
Medical Doctor"
http://www.truthaboutscientology.com/stats/by-name/c/charles-e.-law,-jr..html
Charles E. Law, Jr. in Scientology's Published Service Completion Lists
http://www.truthaboutscientology.com/stats/by-name/f/feline-butcher.html
Feline Butcher - Scientology Service Completions
Below snip>
Butcher, a tall woman with a German accent who clients say exudes
confidence in her advice and therapies, advised against surgery, Erica
says."
Below snip>
The dowsing rod, the magic drops and the other proposed treatments were
not mentioned, [Dr. (Medical)] Hoffman says.
“The outlandish claims about a cure – I didn’t hear about that until the
end,” he says, when Erica told him of their experiences."
Story Review:
http://articles.latimes.com/2006/feb/05/local/me-fraud5
LA_Times Archive for Sunday, February 05, 2006
Life and Death on Fringes of Medicine
By Shari Roan
February 05, 2006 in print edition A-1
snip>
Clive McLean died March 29 of kidney cancer that had spread to his
brain. The therapies for which he and his wife had paid so dearly –
using up much of their savings and forsaking traditional cancer
treatments that might have prolonged his life – were useless, doctors
say.
Erica McLean says she has shared the details of her husband's experience
with the L.A. County Sheriff's Department. Acting on her complaint, the
department recently completed an investigation into the actions of Chuah
and Feline Butcher, a Los Angeles nutritionist with a large celebrity
clientele who often works with Chuah.
The case has been turned over to the district attorney's office for
consideration of criminal charges of grand theft and practicing medicine
without a license."
snip>
Today, says Dr. Wallace Sampson, clinical professor emeritus of medicine
at Stanford University, no treatments can be called bad, only
"unproven." Sampson edits the Scientific Review of Alternative Medicine,
a journal exploring the scientific validity of complementary and
alternative treatments.
Proponents of unorthodox medicine have been quite successful at changing
the language and the playing field, he says. "What we used to regard as
illegal, immoral and unethical is now regarded as just a different way
of thinking."
But Erica McLean maintains that she was duped.
"When you're dealing with something like this, you can believe anything
and anybody," Erica says. "We were so pulled by the promise of a cure.
It was a betrayal."
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Keeping Hopes Up
Clive and Erica McLean were receptive to a different way of thinking.
Clive, an easygoing man with thick hair and blue eyes, was born in
Scotland, moving to London at 15 to enroll in a prestigious art school.
Although painting remained his lifelong love, he left England for the
United States as a young man to further his burgeoning photography
career.
At 60, he was a successful photographer at Hustler magazine and owned a
production company with Erica that made adult videos. He smoked cigars,
laughed easily and, with Erica, his wife of 15 years, had purchased the
ranch in Sunland three years ago. There, the couple kept horses and
enjoyed sweeping canyon views. When they moved in, he engraved their
names, the date and a heart in wet concrete on the front step of the
home.
His dream, Erica says, was to ease out of his current career, build an
art studio on their property and return to oil painting and sketching.
Clive was also committed to his health, having given up alcohol about 11
years earlier and choosing only organic foods for the dinners he
prepared for Erica each evening.
He had been a client of Butcher’s nutrition practice for about 15 years,
usually dropping by her office every month or two. He purchased vitamins
and herbs from her to improve his energy levels and ward off colds. He
even underwent intravenous vitamin therapy, containing vitamins B or C.
When Clive began suffering back pain and twitching on his left side in
August 2004, he went to the emergency room at Cedars-Sinai Medical
Center and was referred to Dr. David Hoffman, an assistant clinical
professor of medicine at UCLA.
Hoffman diagnosed Clive with kidney cancer that had spread to his brain,
and told the couple that Clive would probably die in a matter of months.
But he didn’t give up hope. He told them that some therapies, including
surgery, did offer a slim chance of remission.
“Dr. Hoffman said, ‘It’s serious but let’s work with it,’ ” recalls
Erica, a petite woman who worked alongside Clive. “He said we had
options.”
Clive turned to Butcher for advice, Erica says.
Butcher is listed in Medical Board of California records as the office
manager for Dr. Charles E. Law Jr. of the Studio City Health Center.
Etra, her attorney, says she is a “nutrition consultant” without a
college degree but is “self-taught with 20 years of experience.” He said
Butcher would not answer questions about the McLean case.
Butcher, a tall woman with a German accent who clients say exudes
confidence in her advice and therapies, advised against surgery, Erica
says.
Clive was torn. He first chose to undergo a treatment Hoffman
recommended, gamma knife radiation surgery, to shrink the tumors in his
brain that were causing his pain and twitching. The experience, Erica
says, was “horrific.”
On the morning of the procedure, Clive arrived at the hospital early,
worried but prepared to see it through. A head frame was then attached
to his skull with pins so that, during the procedure, doctors could beam
radiation into the tumors. The pain was searing, but Clive was unable to
lie down because of the frame attached to his head. Although he was
eventually given morphine to ease his discomfort, he didn’t undergo the
procedure until 3:30 p.m.
Afterward, the couple left the hospital feeling as if the treatment, and
what Clive had been forced to endure, had not been fully explained to
them beforehand.
The experience made them even more receptive to the advice they had
received two days earlier, Erica says, when Butcher dropped by to visit
the McLeans with a guest in tow: David Chuah, a slight, unprepossessing
man with a wealth of knowledge about alternative medicine.
Chuah described himself as a biochemist and a cancer doctor and told the
couple he could cure Clive, Erica says. Then he provided a
demonstration. Carting a briefcase containing rows of pills and a
“dowsing rod,” he instructed Clive to hold various bottles of medicine
while Chuah swirled the rod around him, Erica recalls. As she tells it:
If the rod made large circles, Clive didn’t need that particular
medicine; if the rod began spinning in small circles, the drug would be
helpful.
By the end of the visit, Erica says, the McLeans had written a check for
$450 for various medicines, two of which were called magic drops and C-3
drops.
“Chuah was guaranteeing that he could cure Clive,” Erica contends.
“Here’s Western medicine with its horrible side effects, and here’s this
holistic, gentle nutritionist who acts so concerned.”
After the radiation treatment, the McLeans informed Hoffman that they
wanted to try alternative treatments instead of Hoffman’s treatment
plan.
The doctor had already prescribed steroids for the swelling in Clive’s
brain as well as an anti-seizure medication. But he had also recommended
removal of the cancerous kidney and a course of interleukin-2, a drug
that has been found to boost the immune system to fight solid tumors.
Hoffman, an expert in the use of interleukin for kidney cancer, said
about 10% to 15% of patients have a good response to the drug, sometimes
surviving for several years.
Hoffman, an energetic, young doctor who prizes the bond he forms with
patients, didn’t fight the couple’s decision to spurn traditional
medicine.
Not only does he believe that patients have a right to make their own
decisions, he viewed the McLeans’ preference for alternative medicine as
imperturbable. He had trouble convincing the couple that his treatments
could make a difference, Hoffman says, and given Clive’s poor prognosis,
he was reluctant to try to dissuade them from something they believed
could help.
“Our usual caveat is as long as it’s not impoverishing you or making you
feel sick, it’s OK,” says Hoffman of his patients’ unorthodox therapies.
“They were not asking me what to do. They were telling me what they were
going to do.” Besides, he adds, “our track record with this kind of
tumor is pretty dismal.”
The dowsing rod, the magic drops and the other proposed treatments were
not mentioned, Hoffman says.
“The outlandish claims about a cure – I didn’t hear about that until the
end,” he says, when Erica told him of their experiences."
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Dr. Stephen Maturin's camphorated tincture
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Capt. Jack Aubrey: "What the hell did you spike that tincture with,
Stephen!!?? No cello and violin tonight!"
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