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Although
the woman was a patient of Dr. Wilson's, according to his records
she was not taking the T3 medicine in a manner similar
to the way it was prescribed.
After her
fatal heart attack, her daughter filed a malpractice suit against
Dr. Wilson claiming that it was his treatment of her mother that
caused her death. The case was settled out of court for about $250,000.
It was never proven (because there's no way of knowing) that the
T3 she was taking, even in the way that she was taking
it, had anything to do with her death.
Furthermore,
she was taking Cytomel, not the T3 compounded with
a sustained-release agent that Dr. Wilson now recommends. As a comparison,
when Dr. Wilson was using Cytomel for the T3 therapy
in several hundred patients at a time, he might get 7 to 8 beeper
pages over the weekend from patients having fairly significant side
effects. When he switched all of his patients over to the T3
compound that he conceived of, he would go 6 months without a page.
Incidentally,
giving T3 therapy for patients' symptoms of low thyroid
function based on their symptoms (as opposed to blood test results)
is something that has been done for over 50 years. It's just that
Dr. Wilson's principles and methods are believed, by many, to be
far more effective.
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