Not only this fraud was NOT nominated to the Nobel Prize, but also check this out:
Censured by Florida Board of Medicine In 2003, the Florida Board of Medicine fined him $2,000 for billing a patient for services not received, forced him to pay $52,000 in court costs, and directed him to perform 100 hours of community service.
(cite - pdf) The Board of Medicine also ruled that Hammesfahr's treatment of stroke patients, using a procedure he has claimed could help Terri Schiavo, was "not within the generally accepted standard of care" (Finding of Fact No. 55, PDF p. 33), it declined to rule that the treatment was harmful to his patients and noted that some patients improved after treatment.
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