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Washington) at 9 A.M. on May 6th without knocking on the door or accepting
an offer to have it unlocked. Commanded to "freeze!" and put their
hands in the air, the employees of the clinic were escorted from the building
and refused readmittance for 14 hours while an uncounted number of
boxes of clinic records and equipment was taken to an unknown location.
The clinic is owned by Jonathan V. Wright, M.D. (Harvard University;
University of Michigan Medical School), who has practiced medicine in
Washington since 1970 and treated tens of thousands of patients, including
1,200 currently under his care. The warrant issued authorized the
search and seizure of injectable materials, including vitamins; a vice; literature;
and patient records. Also raided at the same time was the For Your
Health pharmacy operated by Raymond Suen. As of mid-July, no charges
had been filed against anyone.
Suen, together with Kent Littleton, Chief Chemist, Meridian Valley
Clinical Laboratory (Kent, Washington), had collaborated with Wright to
submit a well-documented article, "Testing for vitamin K: An osteoporosis
risk factor." (Am. Clin. Lab. 8[2], 16 [1989]). Wright et al. traced the
connection between vitamin K and bone formation in promoting the
gamma carboxylation of glutamic acid in osteocalcin that binds calcium
ions leading to bone calcification. (In its identical but much better known
function in blood clotting, vitamin K promotes the binding of calcium
toprothrombin in its transformation to thrombin.) While considerable vitamin
K is presumably synthesized by normal intestinal flora, many clinicians
are aware that normal microflora are much less frequent today than
in the preantibiotic days. Care must be taken in sample preparation and in
the frequently used HPLC analysis of vitamin K in serum, but Wright
finds that appropriate dietary changes and supplementation almost always
result in substantial improvement in serum levels in just a few weeks.