Therapies, Life-Threatening Diseases

Thank you, Frank. Excuse me, the lights are kind of off, I'm looking. Coleby. It was the patient who spoke named Coleby, I believe the last one he talked about, about M.D. Anderson and how he was a number. It just came to my mind that one of the contributors to my book, to Honest Medicine, who went to M.D. Anderson for cancer treatment and ran like, you know, what he called it, the cancer Wal-Mart.

So Coleby made me think of that. I just wanted to say I'm very, very happy to be here, thanks to a wonderful woman named Betsy Manning. Is Betsy here? Hi. Where is she? Anyway, she heard me on. Coast to Coast A.M. and she called Lorraine and she said, you've got to. So I hope I live up to her. Your her expectations. When I was a guest on Dr. Ron Hoffman's radio show Health Talk. He said the name of my book. He said, honest medicine. Does that mean that you think a lot of medicine is dishonest? And I said, yep. And he said, you don't pull any punches, do you? And I said, nope. And then we were off and running.

And I like to tell about that interchange, mainly because it is honesty that I hope to be known for with medicine, because I've been through so much with my husband's illness and then with all the research I've done that I want to get the word out there about some very honest treatments, not the kinds of treatments that we're often told about by our doctors.

I do want to say that I did not want to start out ever to be a bestselling author, and I didn't want to be a medical advocate. Actually, I don't love writing. And my family background taught me to be very wary of the medical system.

So it was, as Frank pointed out, my husband's brain tumor that thrust me into being a medical advocate, being a health advocate, medical advocate. Skepticism about traditional medicine was inculcated into me very early. My dad was a in my book, I tell all about how my dad was a physician back in the good old days of medicine. They weren't so good. The 50s, the 60s and into the early 70s. And he would tell me the most awful stories about his fellow doctors and about the medical system, which he said was just going in a very bad direction. And I can't tell you the things he said about his fellow doctors because I'd probably be chased out of the hall. But he did say one thing, and that was if a