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MALPRACTICE ALERT Violation Of Informed
Consent
by Fred A.Baughman
Jr., MD.
Dr. Baughman is
a board certified neurologist and child neurologist and a Fellow of the
American Academy of Neurology. He has discovered and described real diseases,
yet has found no abnormality in children said to have ADD/ADHD and �learning
disabilities.�
Throughout the 1980s
and 1990s, I witnessed the exploding ADHD epidemic. Just as it was my
duty to every patient to diagnose actual disease when it was present,
it was equally my duty to make clear to them that they had no disease
when that was the case�that is, when no abnormality could be found. Moreover,
it was my duty to know the scientific literature concerning every real
neurological disease, and every purported neurological disease as well.
By contrast, in its
40 years of existence, �biological psychiatry� has yet to validate a single
psychiatric condition/diagnosis as an abnormality/disease, or as anything
�neurological,� �biological,� �chemically imbalanced� or �genetic.�
With no abnormality
in the �ADHD child,� the pseudo-medical label is nothing but stigmatizing,
and the unwarranted drug treatment that invariably follows, a physical
assault. The �medication� typically prescribed for ADHD and �learning
disorders� is a hazardous and addictive amphetamine-like drug.
The following children
are no longer hyper active or inattentive�they are dead. Between 1994
and 2001, I was consulted, medically or legally, formally or informally,
in the following death cases:
Stephanie, 11, prescribed
a stimulant and died of cardiac arrhythmia;
Matthew, 13, pre
scribed a stimulant and died of cardiomyopathy [disease of heart muscle];
Macauley, 7, prescribed
a stimulant and three other psychiatric drugs, suffered a cardiac arrest;
Travis, 13, prescribed
a stimulant and suffered cardiomyopathy;
Randy, 9, given a
stimulant and several other drugs and died from cardiac arrest;
Cameron, 12, prescribed
a stimulant and died from hypereosin ophilic syndrome [abnormal increase
in white blood cells].
This is a high price
to pay for the �treat ment� of a �disease� that does not exist. In calling
ADHD an abnormality/disease, without scientific facts, the psychiatrist
knowingly lies, and violates the informed consent rights of both patient
and parents. This is de facto medical malpractice.
I urge all physicians
to remember, �No demonstrable physical or chemical abnormality:
no disease!�
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