Klinik St. Georg treatment costs

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from a recent posting re Klinik St. Georg

>„Janice made one last try at a cure by going to the Klinik St. Georg in Bad

Aibling,

Germany, outside of Munich. The clinic, known to English-speaking people as St.

Georg Hospital, nestled in the foothills of the Alps, treats 2,500 German and

2,500 foreign patients a year and has developed a widespread, word-of-mouth

following.

>

>Janice told me her story three weeks after she stated treatment at the clinic.

With a joyous smile on her beautiful face- -and a stomach now flat- -she

pronounced, " This is my favorite place in the whole world. I just love it here! "

She said she was completely free of pain, and her energy had been restored.

>

>She received treatment according to a standard Klinik St. Georg cancer

protocol: a week of detoxification and the strengthening of the immune system

with diet and nutritional supplements, followed by two weeks of localized

hyperthermia treatment and low-dose

>chemotherapy. Hyperthermia involves raising the temperature of the body area

surrounding a malignant tumor, or in many cases, the whole body itself, to

levels of heat and for periods of time lethal to the cancerous tissue but not

injurious to other cells.

>

>Friedrich Douwes, M.D., of Klinik St. Georg has great success using a " synergy

of treatments " - with special emphasis on the use of heat from far InfraRed

radiation and direct electrical current as mainstays of his cancer-killing

strategy.

(snip)

When I went to visit their website to double-check the prices for the Klinik St.

Georg treatment someone had posted a while ago, I was (to put it mildly)

slightly shocked that they were indeed as high as stated in the posting. So I

wrote to Klinik St. Georg to find out if they were ready to help ill people

from abroad who were financially less well endowed:

>Subject: Enquire re treatment costs

>

>Prof. Dr. Friedrich Douwes, St.-n-Klinik

>Rosenheimer Str. 6-8

>83043 Bad Aibling

>

>Dear Prof. Douwes,

>

>I have a general question regarding treatment costs as stated on your website.

>

>Is is possible to obtain a reduction for patients from abroad, particularly

from the US (some of them impecunious) who are either uninsured or whose

insurance does not share in the cost? If yes, how high would such a reduction be

and how would a prospective patient go about applying for it?

>

>With many thanks.

>Sincerely,

Here is Prof. Douwes’ assistant’s reply:

>From: " Friedrich R. Douwes MD " <info@...>

>crystalpyramid@...

>Subject: <no subject>

>Sender: <klinik-st-georg@...>

>

>Dear...

>many thanks for your message. Sadly, our clinic is unable to provide a

reduction for patients from abroad, particularly from the US (some of them

impecunious) who are either uninsured or whose insurance does not share in the

cost.

>We will be happy to answer any further questions you may have regarding this

matter (tel. +49-8061-498-427).

>

>Yours faithfully,

>(assistant’s name)

>Klinik St. Georg

So I continue to think they are exploiting people’s predicament. It seems that

the German health insurance (which everyone here is entitled to) covers their

exorbitant costs (we have a very effective insurance system), but asking the

same amounts from uninsured foreigners and refusing anybody unable to pay them

seems pure commercialism to me (again, to put it mildly).

Ulla