I. "Malariotherapy":
For decades, the Heimlich
Institute has been conducting abusive human experiments on
American & Third World AIDS, cancer, and Lyme Disease patients,
deliberately infecting them with malaria. Experts have compared
this "research" to the Nazi concentration camp experiments
and the Tuskegee syphilis experiments. My father says plans are
in motion to start a new project in an unnamed country. Why has
Deaconess Associations of Cincinnati, a $200+ million/year health
services corporation, funded and sponsored these experiments?
(Related
print & TV reports, key documents)
II. The Heimlich maneuver
for drowning rescue: Every
legitimate medical organization agrees this discredited treatment
is useless and potentially deadly as it wastes precious rescue
time and may cause victims to vomit and aspirate. Facts indicate
that in 1974 my father simply dreamed up the idea and started
promoting it. Presumably to convince the public to start doing
the procedure, from 1974-2003 my father and a physician from
Potomac MD appear to have used cronies to fabricate a string
of cases in which drowning victims were allegedly rescued by
the use of the maneuver. The cases were planted in the media
and then my father published them in medical journals. The results
are tragic. Over three decades, the use of the Heimlich maneuver
by lifeguards and bystanders in near-drowning cases has reportedly
resulted in dozens of serious injuries including the deaths of
kids.
Some
of the victims - casualties of my father's campaign
Related
print & TV reports, key documents
Even after widespread exposure
of the deadly results of this 30-year fraud, the following organizations
continue to teach and/or promote the use of the Heimlich maneuver
for drowning rescue:
Deaconess Associations, Cincinnati, OH - $200+ million/year health services
corporation
The National Aquatic
Safety Company (NASCO), Houston, TX - lifeguard training
company
The
Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine, Washington, DC
- nonprofit promoting ethical medicine
Farley
Boyle, founder/president CHASE for Life, New Jersy first
aid training nonprofit
"The Real Me: Dr. Henry
Heimlich" - GoodLife TV (1999)
"These so-called medical experts. Screw 'em"
That's what John Hunsucker, the president of the
National Aquatic Safety Company (NASCO), a Houston-area life
guard training company says in response to the fact that every
legitimate first aid and water safety organization and every
drowning expert agree that performing the Heimlich maneuver on
drowning victims is a useless, potentially deadly treatment that
has been linked to dozens of serious injuries, including the
deaths of kids.
C.H.A.S.E.
for Life & the Heimlich maneuver for near-drowning rescue
The American
Red Cross warns against performing the Heimlich maneuver on drowning
victims because it's a useless and potentially lethal procedure.
Meanwhile they're partnering with a New Jersey first aid training
nonprofit whose president recommends it.
"Some
Moral Outrage"
The Heimlich Institute's ongoing
illicit experiments on AIDS Patients
"A masterful piece of writing
and reporting"
New Republic editor Jason Zengerle's ethically-challenged
Heimlich article & his wife Dr. Claire Farel's connections
to the Heimlich "malariotherapy" experiments
Ethics, atrocities,
and PCRM's "Heimlich Award"
"We oppose
unethical human experiments" claims
the Physicians Committee
for Responsible Medicine (PCRM), a Washington DC nonprofit supported
by public officials including Sen. Ron Wyden & Rep. Jim McDermott
and celebrities like Alec Baldwin, Bill Maher, and many others.
Meanwhile, my father - a high-profile PCRM board member and namesake
of the group's "Henry J. Heimlich Award for Innovative Medicine"
- has been supervising notorious human experiments on AIDS, cancer,
and Lyme Disease patients for 20 years, experiments which have
been widely condemned as medical atrocities.
Department
of Corrections - Voice of America speechless after bungled Heimlich
story
In January 2009,
the Voice of America published a puff piece about my father that
was rife with factual errors, so I submitted a thoroughly-documented
corrections request. Months later, despite an "investigation"
by VOA's Chief of Staff, they still can't get their act together.
Your tax dollars at work....
Deaconess
Associations: promoting dangerous Heimlich quackery & dubious
fundraising
Since 1998, this $250 million/year
Cincinnati hospital mega-corporation has promoted and fundraised
on all of my father's crackpot medical claims: that the Heimlich
maneuver is great for near-drowning victims, to stop asthma attacks,
and to treat cystic fibrosis. Deaconess has also funded the Heimlich
AIDS programs. Meet the five Cincinnatians who are responsible
- four prominent Queen City health care professionals and my
brother Phil, a former Christian radio talk show host.
Heimlich
Maneuver Co-Developer Loses Libel Suit
A federal court
judge has dismissed a libel suit brought by Edward Patrick, M.D.
against the Cleveland Scene newspaper and Thomas Francis, a writer
who whose cover story, "Playing
Doctor," had accused Patrick of lying about his professional
experience. Patrick is board-certified in emergency medicine,
based on a one-year residency program followed by credit for
practice. However, critics believe he did not complete residency
training. The newspaper article also questioned the veracity
of data from Patrick that were used to establish the Heimlich
maneuver. as a method for treating choking. As noted below, the
judge concluded that Patrick misrepresented the extent of his
medical training and failed to present credible information to
rebut other accusations made in the article. (Casewatch
by Stephen Barrett MD, 10/22/08)
Click here for Patrick Institute "Wright Brothers"
press release claiming Dr. Patrick was denied credit for developing
the Heimlich maneuver. Click
here for Patrick/Heimlich timeline.
What's the
best way to rescue a choking victim? That depends on whom you
ask
Since 2006, the
American Red Cross stopped teaching the Heimlich maneuver as
the first treatment response, but the American Heart Association
teaches a different protocol. Meanwhile, Australia has stopped
teaching the Heimlich maneuver. Why so much confusion? Ask former
US Surgeon General C. Everett Koop, now at Dartmouth's Koop Institute.
Why
did US Surgeon General C. Everett Koop manipulate national first
aid guidelines as a buddy favor" for my father?
My father
(and brother's) history with narco doctors
Throughout his
career, my
father has been closely associated with a string of physicians
who lost their licenses and went to prison for excessive prescription
narcotics violations, including a Beverly Hills doctor to the
stars who made after-midnight housecalls "to sedate"
Marilyn Monroe.
"A Caring World"? My father's history of collegial
abuse & intimidation
For decades,
he silenced critics with threats and dirty tricks, meanwhile
promoting a nonexistent project called "A Caring World"....