SchaferAutismReport: Green Doctors

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Thursday, August 14, 2008

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Vol. 12 No. 120p

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PUBLIC HEALTH

Green Doctors

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PEOPLE

Disruptive Behavior By Autistic Kids Stirs Furor

Parents Sue Over Near-Drowning, Indiana

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TREATMENT

The Secretin Story: Still A Promising Treatment For Autism

Where Disabled Kids Learn What They Can Do

RESEARCH

California Data Do Not Support a Link Between Thimerosal in Vaccines and

Autism

EDUCATION

Arizona Cuts Funding; Autism School Canceled

MEDIA

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By Lindy Washburn The Record (Hackensack

N.J.)

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Pediatricians are used to considering the

health effects of the environment on children. Every day they test kids for

lead poisoning, treat young patients with asthma and allergies, and

question how frequently they diagnose autism and neurological disorders.

Now an Oradell, N.J., pediatrician is

considering what impact his own medical practice has on the environment.

Dr. Lawrence Rosen, medical adviser to the

Deirdre Imus Environmental Center for Pediatric Oncology, has opened what

could be the first " green " pediatric office in northern New

Jersey.

The office is built and furnished with

non-toxic materials, from examination tables to ceiling tiles and paint.

Examination rooms are suffused with natural light. Medical records are

electronic. Paper, plastic and glass are recycled, and a disposal program

for patients' unused medications is in the works.

Rosen, rocking in a chair he says is 97

percent made from recycled material, said his office is " safe for the

environment and safe for humans. " His practice is called the Whole

Child Center.

" With all the issues we have today with

chronic illnesses and our children, he serves as a real example of

modern-day medicine, " said Deirdre Imus, who quotes Rosen throughout

her book, " Growing Up Green! Baby and Child Care. "

" He has really made it a priority to

practice what he teaches " by emphasizing prevention and a holistic

approach to children's health, Imus said.

Rosen spent part of last summer at the Imus

Ranch in New Mexico working with kids with cancer. While there, he set up

homeopathic treatment instructions for such common problems as bug bites,

sunburn, headache and colds, she said.

The new office rides the cultural current of

environmental consciousness and marketing, as architects, schools, stores

and religious congregations " go green. "

Environmentally friendly practices in

internal medicine, dentistry, chiropractic and other specialties have

opened around the country in recent years, according to the Teleosis

Institute in Berkeley, which offers a " green health care " course.

Rosen, a graduate, is on the advisory board.

" It's a new model of medicine, "

said Niyati Desai, the institute's associate director. This philosophy

considers " not only how the environment is affecting our health, but

how humans — the medical industry — affect the environment. " Teleosis

focuses on small health-care practices.

Doctors are considering such matters as

whether to use disposable, single-use paper gowns for every patient or

washable cotton. Rosen is planning to use organic cotton gowns that will be

washed in biodegradable laundry detergent.

To be truly green, Rosen said, medicine

should also follow an " integrative " approach, one combining

" safe and effective complementary and alternative medical

therapies " with conventional medicine.

That doesn't mean he avoids vaccinating

children for standard communicable diseases.

" I want to make it very clear that I am

in favor of vaccination, " he said. He will work with families to

discuss their concerns, he said. Some have pointed to childhood vaccines as

a potential cause of the rising rates of autism, although the national

Institute of Medicine said there was no evidence to support that claim.

Classes in infant massage and yoga are among

the extras at the Whole Child Center, taught by its clinical coordinator,

Overgaard, a certified holistic nurse and health counselor.

Integrative pediatrics also views the child

as more than a physical being, Rosen said. It considers children's

emotional and spiritual makeup and the context of their lives within the

family.

Lori Ruschman, whose two children are

Rosen's patients, said she came to the practice because of " his

approach — to be open-minded about alternative therapies. He doesn't jump

the gun in suggesting medication right off the bat. He listens to the

parent, to my concerns. "

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