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"Effectiveness Unconditionally Proved," "Effectiveness Conditionally
Demonstrated," and "Effectiveness Undetermined." Safety could also be
categorized in the same manner and the appropriate designation then
affixed to all products or containers. Judgment of the effectiveness of
any medical product or device should not be vested in any governmental
agency or institutions, but should be returned to the province of the
individual physician. Freedom of choice for medical materials, therapy
and methods must be put on the same footing as civil liberties and as
vigorously protected.
One of the better scholars in this field—Robert G. Houston—says simply:
There should be curbs on the FDA—on its powers to intrude into the private
practice of medicine ... the FDA should not be dictating to doctors
what they can and cannot do.
Richard Ericson, a dedicated husband of a cancer victim, eloquently
concurred (Cancer Treatment: Why So Many Failures):
A physician should be able to prescribe any type of cancer treatment
that he considers best for the patient, with the patient's consent and
knowledge, without stringent governmental regulations that are now in
force. Congress should consider such problems when new guidelines
are enacted.
Only when FDA concentrates on the blatant health menaces such as
overtly misleading health product claims or drugs shown to cause death
and injury; only when FDA ceases to be the bully boy for the big drug
companies and other vested interests; and only when FDA again allows
physicians, nonconventional healers and their patients their choice of therapeutic
treatments ... will it regain its legitimate government function. In
its present form, it is like a malignant beast, harming society rather than
serving it.
AMERICAN CLINICAL LABORATORY
CITES TOWNSEND LETTER
Excerpts (August 1992):
According to reports in the Townsend Letter for Doctors (#108, July 1992,
p. 559) including the reprint of an editorial from the Seattle Post-
Intelligencer (P-I), U.S. Food and Drug Agency (FDA) agents wearing
flak jackets and accompanied by a contingent of King County
(Washington) police with guns drawn broke into the Tahoma Clinic (Kent,