The Natural Repertory of Prof. William Nelson

unconventional or experimental in the absence of demonstrable physical
harm to the patient.” Source: www.healthy.net/public/legal-
lg/regulations/MPA.HTM)
If the doctor is not hurting anybody with an experimental or
unconventional technique, he/she would not have his license revoked.
Strong evidence would have to be found that the patient had been
harmed in order to challenge the doctor. Many of these so-called
unconventional therapies are accepted by a vast majority of doctors, and
there is no one form of medicine that is accepted above all others.
Medicine abounds with many techniques that are not fully, scientifically
evaluated or properly challenged. Oftentimes, doctors who use these
unconventional techniques are challenged by traditional medical doctors
on the basis of only one or two cases. Many doctors have had their
practices disrupted because of one or two cases where unconventional
therapy did not quite abate the patient’s complaint.
Doctors see patients dying every day. Hospitals abound with patients
whose therapies and diagnostic accuracy have led to their demise. Robert
S. Mendelsohn, in his book, Confessions of a Medical Heretic, (Chicago:
Contemporary Books. 1979), wrote that when the doctors in a group of
hospitals in a certain local community went on strike, there was a major
change in the death rate – it dropped dramatically. Fewer people died
when doctors stopped practicing some accepted medical techniques.
In another case in Denver, Colorado, the state charged parents for not
using traditional medicine when their child died from a disease that was
assumed to be treatable at a local hospital. The parent was a Christian
Scientist who believed more in prayer than in drugs. If the ratio of
children who survive with Christian Scientist parents vs. the ratio of
children who survive overall in hospitals is looked at, there is a
tremendous degree of variance. Children died at a greater rate in
hospitals than they did from having Christian Scientist parents. In the
world today, The United States is fifteenth overall in birth mortality,
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