Ridicle, Persecution, Acceptance

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..> Today one patient with a stack of papers, tomorrow an angry mob with

torches.

>

> Someone once said that a new idea goes through three phases:

>

> 1. Ridicule

> 2. Persecution

> 3. Acceptance.

>

> I think we're about to enter stage 2...

>

> -- prr

If you're familiar with the fate of Dr. Derry in Canada, and Dr. Barry

Durant-Peatfield in England (see

http://thyroid.about.com/library/weekly/aa042501a.htm), both very popular

Armour-prescribing doctors who were forced out of practice by medical boards

in the last couple of years, you would have no doubt we had entered the

persecution phase years ago. My own doctor was persecuted by a state

licensing board, not because any patient had a complaint or suffered harm,

but because another physician thought he was too unconventional and brought

charges against him.

I think the conventional guys are taking a hit in the pocketbook, and the

persecution is going to get worse before we get into acceptance.

Lynn