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Galileo's Lawyer: Courtroom Battles in Alternative Health, Complementary Medicine and Experimental Treatments | 
| Author: Richard A. Jaffe
Publisher: Thumbs UP Press
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  2 reviews
Sales Rank: 668851
Media: Paperback
Edition: 1st
Pages: 289
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.5
Dimensions (in): 8.7 x 6 x 0.9
ISBN: 0980118301
Dewey Decimal Number: 340
EAN: 9780980118308
ASIN: 0980118301
Publication Date: July 2, 2008
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Product Description
Galileo's Lawyer is an insider's view of the Alternative Health field based on the legal battles between medical mavericks,their patients, and the government and the church of medical orthodoxy. The book relates courtroom dramas such as the government's fourteen year battle against the Burzynski Cancer Clinic in Houston. It also tells how the government stopped a promising stem cell treatment, explains the battles between nutritionists and the registered dietitians, describes how New Jersey chiropractors fought against the government (and won), explains why naturopaths are prosecuted for practicing medicine without a license, and presents other stories involving experimental treatments and medical pioneers.
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Jaffe slays the legal dragon to protect terminally ill patients and their doctors from legal medical abuse. August 16, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
With a self-deprecating wit, lighthearted touch and a schoolboy's delight in describing his big bully adversaries, Richard Jaffe tells wonderful stories spanning several decades of his hapless but ultimately effective struggles to legally represent and protect a range of dedicated health care practitioners and researchers who just wanted to offer safe innovative treatments to terminally ill patients and to give these patients an alternative to being further tortured by medical treatments that their traditional doctors knew did not work.
Like the small town coach that doesn't know how his scrawny little team keeps winning in the big leagues but who keeps going anyway, Jaffe shares his desperate strategies and creative "hail Mary" legal motions that have allowed judges to rule for his clients with over-whelming odds stacked against them and that have created legal precedents which have given us all better health care options.
It warms my heart to hear about an attorney who fights for the medical underdog and for their helpless patients against laws that force these patients to be needlessly tortured by medical treatments that are known to be ineffective and dangerous.
It is even better to find a brilliant attorney with a big heart and sense of humor willing to fight against the almost unlimited, brute force legal machine backed by the big pharmaceutical companies, the AMA, the FDA and other government agencies.
May Richard Jaffe continue to do his work and to write books that inspire us all.
An Advocate for Freedom of Medical Care Choices May 7, 2008
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
Galileo's Lawyer is an eye-opening page turner that will shock all those who think we have freedom of choice in medical care for conditions for which standard medical treatments are inadequate at best. The power of our medical church-like establishment that exerts behind-the-scenes control over our options is largely invisible in most circumstances. If you think the FDA, and medical boards are on your side, and really know what is best for your health, then this book isn't for you! If you are willing to be surprised, perhaps even stunned, by the arrogance and hidebound beliefs of the current system, you will savor the knowledge that there are practitioners, and lawyers, who do their best to deliver options and hope to those who have been backed into a corner. If ever there was a sound argument for overhauling our health care system this book is a fundamental part of the reason we need structural change.
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