“On the other hand, it’s not toxic and my patients have reported feeling good while taking it, so why not support them?”

Pharmaceutical companies are very annoyed with niacin because their products have to compete with it. Some of their cholesterol-lowering drugs cost up to $150 a month while niacin costs about $10.

I expect and hope that orthomolecular medicine, within the next five to ten years, will cease to be a specialty in medicine and that all physicians will be using nurition as an essential tool in treating disease.

If the patient has been to more than four physicians, nutrition is probably the medical answer.

They merely reduce the intensity of the symptoms and make life slightly more endurable.

Modern medicine is not scientific, it is full of prejudice, illogic and susceptible to advertising.

Over the past 20 years the drug companies, with their enormous wealth, have taken medicine over and now control its research, what is taught and the information released to the public

I’m not sure what Essiac does to extend cancer survival, and for all we know it may not have this effect.

For schizophrenia, the recovery rate with drug therapy is under 15%. With nutritional therapy, the recovery rate is 80%.

It takes approximately forty years for innovative thought to be incorporated into mainstream thought.

I tell patients that tranquilizers alone never cure anyone.

Doctors are not taught to reason, they are programmed to believe in whatever their medical schools teach them and the leading doctors tell them. .

They create a better behaved, chronic dependent person. Only with orthomolecular treatment can the majority of schizophrenic patients hope to become well and normally independent.

Medicine is not merely a science but an art. The character of the physician may act more powerfully upon the patient than the drugs employed.

The physician must give heed to the region in which the patient lives, that is to say, to its type and peculiarities.

The bottom line: health care reform is about the patient, not about the physician.

If the patient has been to more than four physicians, nutrition is probably the medical answer.

They merely reduce the intensity of the symptoms and make life slightly more endurable.

By visiting patients in their home, by helping them come to terms with their illness, I could heal when I could not cure.

We’re losing a ritual. We’re losing a ritual that I believe is transformative, transcendent, and is at the heart of the patient-physician relationship.

When we cannot cure or save a life, our patients can at least feel cared for. It should be a basic human right.