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The Suppression of Alternative Medical Therapies 115
but also the responsibility for taking over his father's role of supporting
the family.
Harry Hoxsey worked hard at a number of jobs, including coal miner,
since he not only had to provide for his mother and younger siblings, but
he also dreamed of going to medical school. Hoxsey believed that if he
were to become a bona fide M.D., he would be able to carry on the family
tradition of healing cancer without fear of censure, or being prosecuted
for practising medicine without a license.
To this end, he resolved not to treat any people with cancer until he had
qualified as a doctor. However, after he was approached by an old friend
of his father who had cancer, Hoxsey concluded that he couldn't withhold
a life-saving treatment from someone who needed his help. After this first
unofficial patient was cured of his cancer, word spread and Hoxsey soon
found his skills in demand.
As a consequence of successfully treating cancer patients as an unqualified
healer, Hoxsey found that his dream of becoming a doctor was to
remain unfulfilled. The word had been put out within the community of
organised medicine to blacklist the untutored young man who was treating
cancer patients more successfully than the vast majority of the medical
profession of the time (with a few notable renegade exceptions such
as Dr. Max Gerson). No medical school in the United States would accept
Hoxsey as a student.
For the rest of his working life, Hoxsey by virtue of his lack of formal
qualifications was officially employed in his own clinics as a technical
assistant by other doctors who were brave enough to face AMA reprisals
and work with him.
Hoxsey also spent the rest of his life being harassed by the AMA,
whose actions periodically forced him to close the clinics where he was
successfully treating cancer, and move on to another location. Hoxsey,
charged only modest fees for his cancer treatment in accordance to a
promise he had made to his dying father. He never charged anyone who
could prove they were unable to pay, but he was rewarded for his humanitarianism
by being hauled into court over one hundred times for "practicing
medicine without a license." Representatives of organised medicine
even manipulated Hoxsey's own family into bringing a civil suit against
him, having duped them into believing that Hoxsey had stolen a valuable
economic asset from the family when his father had relinquished the secret
formulas to him.
Despite his continued persecution by the AMA, Hoxsey remained hopeful
that his cancer curing formulas might eventually be accepted by the
medical profession. He submitted documented case studies to various
official bodies as proof of the efficacy of his treatment. He also put out a