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Dr. Kathleen Kerr sounds pretty impressive!
She is a co-author of this paper, which sure sounds like she gets it!
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U.S. Pays for Scientology ‘Experiment’ on Sick Veterans
Okay, okay, well... I'm sure she keeps her New Age Space Opera religion out of her medical practice... Right?
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Scientology 'purification' rite used by anti-addiction centres
Sometimes I just want to punch Canadian healthcare SO. HARD.
Dr. Kathleen Kerr is a staff physician and Research Liaison at the Environmental Health Clinic, Women’s College Hospital. She also has a community practice with a special interest in environmental aspects of health. She was a co-author of the Laidlaw and Ontario College of Family Physicians funded 2004 Pesticides Literature Review. Her current research project is Gulf War Illness – Evaluation Of An Innovative Detoxification Program funded by the US Department of Defence.
She is a co-author of this paper, which sure sounds like she gets it!
CONCLUSION: Patients seen at the EHC demonstrated marked functional impairment, consistent with their reported difficulties working and caring for their homes and families during what should be their peak productive years. Early comprehensive assessment, medical management, and social and financial support might avoid the deterioration of function associated with prolonged illness. Education and information resources are required for health care professionals and the public, along with further etiologic and prognostic research.
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Narconon, you say?I have acted as Medical consultant to the Narconon program for 15 years. For the past decade I have studied the results obtained through the use of a detoxification method developed by L. Ron Hubbard, utilizing vitamins, sauna baths and exercise, which is a part of the Narconon program.
While this detox method is strenuous, it is easily and safely accomplished, after a medical checkup, when done under standard supervision by trained personnel. Narconon clients, with histories of moderate to extremely heavy substance abuse, show a marked improvement in alertness, clarity of thought and general health by undergoing this treatment. Most also report a substantial reduction in their craving for drugs or alcohol.
- Kathleen Kerr, M.D.
U.S. Pays for Scientology ‘Experiment’ on Sick Veterans
Carpenter isn’t the only investigator working on the Gulf War Illness study. His co-investigator is Kathleen Kerr, a physician and lecturer at the University of Toronto’s Department of Family and Community Medicine. A longtime and prominent Scientologist, Kerr appeared in advertisements for the church in the 1980s and served as chair of Narconon Toronto’s board of directors until 2011, according to federal tax forms.
Okay, okay, well... I'm sure she keeps her New Age Space Opera religion out of her medical practice... Right?
Um...
Scientology 'purification' rite used by anti-addiction centres
In April, 1984, Ian Haworth of the Toronto-based Council on Mind Abuse (COMA), wrote to the Ontario College of Physicians and Surgeons to complain about a mass-mailing letter sent to the province's doctors from Narconon.
"Dear Physician," the letter read in part, "Do you have patients who have failed to handle a drug addiction problem? As chairman of the board of directors of Narconon, Toronto, and as a general practitioner in Toronto, I would like to recommend the Narconon program . . .
"In addition, Narconon provides services which help addicted persons handle the personal reasons which caused them to become involved with drugs in the first place."
The letter is signed by Dr. Kathleen Kerr, who practises at the Lafayette Health Centre.
A letter sent to Haworth from the college indicates "the Narconon situation has been one that has been of concern to the college for sometime now . . . An individual person, who was placed in this stream by his physician, has approached the college and supplied us with considerable information respecting the manner in which" he was apparently encouraged to join Scientology.
Sometimes I just want to punch Canadian healthcare SO. HARD.
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