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Re: Dr. Ritchie Shoemaker
Posted by Marty Clarke on 11/27/05

    You don't know what you're talking about. You can't even spell "prove"
    (it's misspelled in your posting at least three times). Dr. Shoemaker
    knows his stuff. He can run circles around a hundred other doctors
    combined. It's because he takes a scientific and logical approach to
    helping people. That's very much unlike the approach of most other
    doctors today, who simply want to give the patient the latest
    blockbuster drug, send them on their way, and promptly collect the
    kickback from the pharmaceutical company. I was a patient of Dr.
    Shoemaker from 1980 or 81 until I went to college in 94. I then lived
    in several other states and saw several other doctors. In 1999 or 2000,
    I developed several very troubling medical symptoms. Living in the
    Detroit area at the time, I pursued the problems with around half a
    dozen doctors, without success. It wasn't until I was home on vacation
    in 2002 that a chance injury to my hand took me back to Dr. Shoemaker's
    office. While waiting to show him my hand, I started reading the case
    studies and data on the wall. I quickly realized that Shoemaker was
    probably going to be the first doctor able to offer me any help with my
    other problems. As it turned out, he was. Thank goodness for the hand
    injury that took me to his office that day. By the way, if Dr.
    Shoemaker's goal was to get rich off this stuff, there would be a major
    marketing campaign. He wouldn't take the time to do so much research,
    write so many papers, make so many presentations, and do things that he
    hopes will truly lead to improvement and recovery for many people. In
    case you haven't noticed, his research organization is not for profit.

    I can't help wondering what you stand to gain ($$$ somehow, maybe, if
    only indirectly) by disparaging Dr. Shoemaker.

    >
    > Dear Mr. Greg Weatherman, I have been following Shoemaker for quit
    > some time now and know several people he's treated. The bottom line is
    > that this doctor is dangerous. Don't believe me? He just recently
    > received a warning letter from the FDA about his prescribing the
    > veterinary drug Staphage Lysate to human beings. Need further
    > evidence? He treats Lymes Disease with Actos, a diabetic medication
    > and does not understand how it works. That's because, in all
    > likelyhood, it is voodoo medicine. To make matters worse, the
    > cholesterol medication CSM that binds bilesalts to stools is treated
    > for a neurotoxin that he's NEVER isolated, for mold related disorders
    > he can't proove. The reason Dr. Shoemaker is dangerous is because he
    > prescribes medication based soley on theory and not scientific fact.
    > He is a mad quack. This is a physican who believes that because he
    > treated a woman with CSM and her headaches and lethargy went away that
    > it MUST BE related to a toxin; which is all theory and quackery, which
    > is something he can't proove. In all likelyhood, the reason the first
    > woman's symptoms went away after he treated her with CSM is because
    > she was no longer DEHYDRATED from diarrhea and thus felt better. But
    > this is going to seem too simple to you. You're going to scoff at
    > this. Fine. Dr. Shoemaker needs to proove it. The bottom line is, he
    > can't. And in all patients, placebo-affect is known to transcend
    > thirty percent of patients who think and want to feel better and most
    > importantly, HEAR it from a doctor. He may very well have isolated a
    > Pfisteria outbreak in Pockomoke. Good for him. But the idea that he
    > has a thriving business now based upon the idea that most CFS is
    > caused by neurtoxins is ridiculous. There is no proof. He treats
    > patients as if they were lab animals at his beck and call, under the
    > guise that he is doing them a favor. The tone in your text, suggesting
    > that the cockroaches will run for cover makes me think that you are a
    > fan of his; that's fine if you wish, but remember something, he may
    > very well be wrong.


     
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