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Summary

I estimate that many thousands of patients in Australia with undiagnosed vitamin B12 deficiency, and many hundreds of thousands globally, have been betrayed because of arrogance, apathy and greed.

In their book Could It Be B12? An Epidemic of Misdiagnoses, reference DB01, Sally M. Pacholok and Jeffrey J. Stuart expose the magnitude of the problem of misdiagnosis of vitamin B12 deficiency. According to Bernard Rimland, PhD, Director, Autism Institute:

Patients with undiagnosed vitamin B12 deficiency have been betrayed because of:

• Arrogance of the doctors and pathologists
• Apathy of doctors, pathologists, medical media and governments
• Greed of the suppliers of test kits, the pathology labs and the medical media

Pathology Laboratories and Their Suppliers

The pathology laboratories betrayed their patients with undiagnosed vitamin B12 deficiency by:

• Not recommending the right tests
• Providing incorrect interpretation information
• Providing results that were not accurate

According to Oh and Brown, reference DA01:

In 1996, Mounira Khoury, Leslie Burnett and Mark A Mackay, reference AA01, reported:

Doctors

There is a very serious problem of apathy, towards the problem of vitamin B12 deficiency, amongst Australian doctors. From my own observations, Australian doctors have a grossly inadequate knowledge of, or interest in, vitamin B12 deficiency. The Australian General Practitioner Network showed almost no interest in the problem.

The Medical Media

The medical media in Australia has used censorship to prevent publication of this story.

Governments

Governments, and organizations claiming to uphold quality standards, have been apathetic.

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Examples of Arrogance, Apathy and Greed

Here are a few examples of arrogance, apathy and greed. Details of all of these, with full supporting evidence, are included in this section.

Arrogance

Here is an extract from an Email that I received from Dr Michael Harrison, CEO of Sullivan Nicolaides Pathology, on 10 August 2006

Here is what Mr Rogencamp, lawyer for Mater Pathology, said in his response to my questions:

Apathy

Here are the Mater Pathology MMA results for 30 December 2005 and 9 October 2006:

Mater Original	Mater Repeat

Mater Sample A	Mater Sample B

Here is what one doctor said to me:

Greed

In 1999, as announced by the Washington Post, Abbott Laboratories was fined $100 million (US) for persistent quality control failures in its kit manufacturing facility:

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Evidence

Facts

All of my claims of fact are supported by evidence that is available from Evidence.

Expert Opinion

Expert opinion evidence is provided as quotations from peer-reviewed articles in respected medical journals. All references are available by direct links from the References page.

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