Posted on 02/03/2006 7:31:01 AM PST by lunarbicep
MEXICO CITY — The Mexican clinic where Coretta Scott King died has been closed, U.S. Embassy officials said Friday.
Mexican officials were not immediately available to explain why the Santa Monica Health Institute in the Mexican beach resort of Rosarito, 16 miles south of San Diego, was shut.
Judith Bryan, a spokeswoman for the U.S. Embassy in Mexico City, said the U.S. consulate in Tijuana was helping patients find new facilities.
King last week traveled to the beachside clinic. She was seeking treatment for advanced stage ovarian cancer and a stroke she suffered several months ago.
The clinic specializes in alternative treatments for patients with incurable illnesses.
Its founder and director, Kurt W. Donsbach, has a criminal past and a reputation for offering dubious treatments to desperately ill patients, according to court records and a watchdog group.
However, the clinic doctors assigned to King's case said she arrived in poor health and they could not even begin to treat her before she died early this week.
"She came here with half her body paralyzed," Dr. Rafael Cedeno, the doctor who was overseeing her case, told reporters after King's death. "She was in really bad condition."
They have to prepare the wall in her room to mysteriously have her image appear with tears welling from her eyes. Shrines are much more profitable than phoney clinics.
If you're concerned about dubious medical "treatment", always check with Quackwatch, a good site for medical information about "alternative treatments".
Here's the info on the clinic Correta King went to:
http://www.quackwatch.org/01QuackeryRelatedTopics/donsbachuniversity.html
Is this where Steve McQueen ended up ?
If you are an American and thinking you can get better cancer care in Mexico or Canada, think again.
No reputable doctor would publically discuss a patient in this manner. Very distasteful, if you ask me. and surprising too, since only days before, while looking very frail, but mobile, and regal looking, Mrs. King did make an appearance at an affair honoring MLK.
I've got to think I think it was a huge Atlanta secret that Mrs. King had been taken out of the country...or anywhere else....for treatment. Her death was announced in the evening on local tv, but no mention until the next day of her whereabouts.
Details of the memorial services took an embarrassingly long time to be announced, one can only surmise, because the King children were again squabbling over details with the black celebrity keepers of the King flame, (like Harry Belafonte, John Lewis, Jesse Jackson, etal).
Recent news here was about the (greedy, squabbling) King children in disagreement over selling the run-down The King Center.
I figure the MSM is once again giving us only a cleansed snippet of what's really going on.
Here's the site for this "clinic". It's a total scam, that's why it's in Mexico. Who made the decision for this woman to go to such a quack? What were they thinking?
http://www.hospitalsantamonica.com/index.htm
WSJ has had a couple of feature stories about the King kids and how they've battled over King Center income. Last thing I saw was a plan to turn the place over the National Park Service (Dept of the Interior).
The impression I got from the news last was, that the King children are quabbling over the funeral details amongst each other.
Glad to see the family wasted all that money they got for Dr. King's papers.
The place where she died was originally called an "Alternative Medicine" Clinic, when the story first broke.
Within 24 hours, the label had been switched to a "Holistic Medicine" Clinic...
Before the private jet took the body home.
That's show biz...
I believe the plan was to sell it, with many millions of taxpayer dollars going to the King moochers.
Why would we want to buy it ?
It's not up to us. It's decided by parasites who steal and spend our money to buy votes from idiots.
It's all spelled out in the Constitution. It must be, otherwise it'd be illegal.
The King kids have pulled astounding salaries out of the King Center since the death of MLK.
King's death raised questions about the safety of alternative medical clinics across Mexico...
In 1997, Donsbach was sentenced in federal court in San Diego to a year in prison for smuggling more than $250,000 worth of unapproved drugs into the United States from Mexico... Donsbach was sentenced on three felony counts...
In 1988, the U.S. Postal Service ordered Donsbach and his nephew to stop claiming that a solution of hydrogen peroxide that they sell could prevent cancer and ease arthritis pain.
So I've read. Just another pack of Kennedys.
A nephew of slain civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. set fire to his own apartment in an apparent suicide attempt.
Derek King, 46, sought mental health counseling after Tuesday's blaze, said Bob Bowser, deputy chief of the Lawrence Police Department.
Bowser said Derek King endangered the lives of himself and others when he allegedly set the fire in his apartment, and then refused to leave when rescuers arrived.
01/09/2006
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