National TV News Video: Two Hospitals Fight to Let a Man Die Rather Than Administer Vitamin C. A Lawyer Saved His Life.
Dec. 25, 2010
This broadcast by New Zealand's 60 Minutes is the story of resurrection. A man with swine flu was dying. His lungs were filled with fluid. He was on life-support. The hospital decided to pull the plug in 48 hours.
The family said they wanted high doses of vitamin C administered intravenously. The hospital refused, saying there is no proof that such treatment works. The man's sons told them to do it. The staff buckled: 48 hours only. He got 50 grams a day, worth a few dollars (New Zealand).
The ex-rays two days later revealed that he had improved. The doctors said it was because they had turned him over: prone. "Why didn't they do this before?" asked one son.
Obviously, it was an excuse. They had said that megadoses of vitamin C would do nothing. They were wrong. So, they blamed another factor.
Another physician the took over the case. He pulled the plug -- not on the life support machine, but on the vitamin C. The man got worse. The family asked why. The physician said he would no longer allow vitamin C. The family then got very testy. The hospital put him back on -- a few grams a day. He slowly got better.
The family transferred him to another hospital. Same story: it refused to administer vitamin C. The family got a lawyer to intervene. New Zealand law mandates that hospitals must do what the families say. The hospital reluctantly administered small doses. The man got well enough to eat. His wife sneaked in concentrated vitamin C for him to eat. He recovered.
The man had also been diagnosed with leukemia. It also disappeared.
From the point of view of conventional medicine, the man's full recovery was a vicious stab in the back of educated, certified officials who know what is good for the public: death. Better that a patient die than the medical establishment be exposed as self-willed and blind to an effective treatment. Patients are expendable; physicians' reputations aren't.
The hospitals refused to be interviewed about this. Fortunately, the family had the evidence: X-rays and letters on hospital stationery.
The video on the recovery is here. The follow-up broadcast of an interview with the lawyer is here.
Most cases do not turn out this well. The man has been told that his recovery was one in a billion. That is a way of saying: "Your recovery was a statistical fluke. It had nothing to do with vitamin C."
The physicians are skeptical of vitamin C. The supporters of vitamin C treatment are skeptical of physicians. Skepticism is inevitable, one way or another.
Vitamin C is cheap. Life support systems are expensive. Common sense says, "Try vitamin C." Physicians are trained not to surrender to common sense.