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Mexican clinic where (Mrs.) King died known for alternative treatments
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Posted on 01/31/2006 12:03:31 PM PST by lunarbicep

ROSARITO BEACH, Mexico - The Mexican clinic where Coretta Scott King died Tuesday was known for providing alternative treatments to patients with incurable diseases.

King, 78, suffered a serious stroke and heart attack last year, but her family and clinic employees declined to release any information about her treatment at the Santa Monica Health Institute.

Bishop T.D. Jakes of The Potter's House church in Dallas said he helped King get to Mexico, but he didn't know what kind of treatment she was seeking.

"Mrs. King was very health conscious, even before she got ill. I'm not surprised that she would explore every possible way of seeking treatment," Jakes said.

King died at 1 a.m. Tuesday, said Lorena Blanco, a spokeswoman for the U.S. consulate in Tijuana.

U.S. Embassy officials will work with the King family to ensure that their interaction with Mexican authorities is as smooth as possible - something they do whenever a U.S. citizen dies abroad, said Julia Tully, a spokeswoman at the U.S. Embassy in Mexico City.

King's daughters Bernice and Yolanda were at the hospital, where Mexican authorities told the family there is a legal requirement that King's body be embalmed before it is brought back to the United States, according to King's sister, Edythe Scott Bagley of Cheyney, Penn.

She said the family is complying and that it expects the body to be released later Tuesday.

"I do know that the body is going to be embalmed and the body and the children will be coming in tonight," said Bagley, who spoke with Yolanda King at the hospital.

Bagley also said that Mexican authorities were being cooperative with the family.

Mexican officials were not immediately available to comment.

Located 16 miles south of San Diego in Rosarito Beach, Mexico, the Santa Monica Health Institute says on its Web site that it uses an eclectic approach to diseases that are often believed to be incurable.

"The major patient clientele is comprised of cancer patients who have been told that there is no more hope, all traditional therapies having failed," it says.

The clinic says it also treats cardiovascular disease, diabetes, hepatitis C, arthritis, multiple sclerosis and other auto-immune diseases.

Employees answering the phone at the clinic's San Diego corporate offices refused to give out any information regarding patients.


TOPICS: Mexico; Miscellaneous
KEYWORDS: bishoptdjakes; corettascottking; healthcare; tdjakes
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1 posted on 01/31/2006 12:03:32 PM PST by lunarbicep
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Mexico? Guess this country her hubby wanted to change is good enough.


2 posted on 01/31/2006 12:04:54 PM PST by One Proud Dad
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To: lunarbicep

Did Steve McQueen go there before his demise?


3 posted on 01/31/2006 12:05:25 PM PST by Semper Paratus
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To: lunarbicep

Adminstering the "cures" American doctors won't administer.


4 posted on 01/31/2006 12:10:14 PM PST by Atlas Sneezed (Your FRiendly FReeper Patent Attorney)
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To: Semper Paratus

All I can remember about that is coffee enemas....ICK!


5 posted on 01/31/2006 12:11:22 PM PST by najida (Some days I meltdown faster than chocolate.)
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To: lunarbicep
Voodoo medicine....

Just as viable as voodoo politics....

Semper Fi
6 posted on 01/31/2006 12:13:27 PM PST by river rat (You may turn the other cheek, but I prefer to look into my enemy's vacant dead eyes.)
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To: Semper Paratus

Juarez


7 posted on 01/31/2006 12:15:38 PM PST by Roccus
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To: river rat
Voodoo medicine....

I know a lady in Washington, given 6 months to live by US Doctors. After seeing Mexican doctors, she's still living after 5 years. Brain cancer gone.

8 posted on 01/31/2006 12:17:23 PM PST by aimhigh
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To: Semper Paratus

I thought McQueen used laetril (peach pits) and, of course, it didn't help. Maybe this is what King tried or perhaps the coffee enemas and juice cure. Very sad to be so desperate as to go down there and think that it will save her life. I hope she hadn't suffered, no one deserves that.


9 posted on 01/31/2006 12:18:28 PM PST by Rockiette (Democrats are not intelligent!)
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I thought McQueen used laetril (peach pits)

Laeatril! I remember that. Haven't heard much about it since then.

10 posted on 01/31/2006 12:21:37 PM PST by Semper Paratus
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To: Semper Paratus

Anyone know what the family is gonna charge for the funeral?...ouch! (sencond thoughts on this post)


11 posted on 01/31/2006 12:25:38 PM PST by samadams2000 (Remember our Founding Fathers were REAL men- Unlike today's Rinos)
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To: river rat
Voodoo medicine....

Exactly. why do you think all the Mexicans are coming to the United States for Healthcare? That place is not exactly the Mayo Clinic.

12 posted on 01/31/2006 12:31:29 PM PST by jackbenimble (Import the third world, become the third world)
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To: river rat
ahhh my mom gets treatment in Mexico for all kinds of things, doctors educated in the US but much cheaper procedures in Mexico.
13 posted on 01/31/2006 12:57:53 PM PST by ThisLittleLightofMine
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To: lunarbicep

Interesting!


14 posted on 01/31/2006 1:18:25 PM PST by lilylangtree
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To: lunarbicep

Karl Rove gave her AIDS.


15 posted on 01/31/2006 1:21:03 PM PST by MonroeDNA (Look for the union label--on the bat crashing through your windshield!)
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To: Rockiette
I hope she hadn't suffered, no one deserves that.

Just the trip was enough to make her suffer! *ack* I don't know WHY anyone would think this would be a lifesaving adventure. Anyone who's been to Rosarito knows that. Not to mention the trip through TJ... *yikes*
16 posted on 01/31/2006 1:38:14 PM PST by Jhohanna (Born Free)
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Wanna bet ole Jesse Jackass will be front and center at the funeral? And maybe Rangel and Calypso Louie?


17 posted on 01/31/2006 1:39:21 PM PST by twoputt
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"Wanna bet ole Jesse Jackass will be front and center at the funeral? And maybe Rangel and Calypso Louie?"

What about Calypso Harry? He's pretty big now.

18 posted on 01/31/2006 1:49:22 PM PST by OldEagle (May you live long enough to hear the legends of your own adventures.)
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To: One Proud Dad

I hope she did not suffer.


19 posted on 01/31/2006 5:03:21 PM PST by Galveston Grl (Getting angry and abandoning power to the Democrats is not a choice.)
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To: aimhigh
I would suspect the original diagnosis was wrong, before I would believe some "alternative medicine" Mexican doctor cured brain cancer.

Semper Fi
20 posted on 01/31/2006 8:14:07 PM PST by river rat (You may turn the other cheek, but I prefer to look into my enemy's vacant dead eyes.)
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