Dr. Alice Jones MD said: May 11, 2008 7:15 pm PST
From my understanding of this whole scenario that the Riley's endured, it looks as if an entire community tried to cover this up. If only from a treating physicians perspective, you would think that there would have been an open mind, as per new treatments, specialists or regimens, that this family could have been referred to. Sad but true, do most understand that if the Riley's had appx. 20-25 symptoms each, and found a cure; that the normal treating physician, who was seeing them, let's say appx. 10 times a year each, and prescribing them dozens of drugs, sending them for lab tests, special exams, visits to various specialists and/or others; do you see where this is going, and what was happening, and who was profiting from this? At my clinic, after a continued battery of tests, drug therapies and exams, etc.; whenever we can't explain the reasons for recurring symptoms, we start to search elsewhere. If you cannot find it locally, you look at all past present and future medical information, and then after exhausting all of these methods, and investigative procedures, you use the internet and anything else you can get your hands on. Many doctors in essence, "Dont want to get their hands dirty". This is usually simply the way to avoid the legal depositions and any court involvements, and/or the trouble of having to take time from his or her already burdensome workload, to try and find an answer, which may cost him his precious time or profits, by being away from the droves of patients he's already backlogged with, and they're usually already primed and eager for whatever he throws at them, as with the Riley's, as this went on for years! This Website Mr. Riley has put together, just confirms that we need a "Medical Reformation" in this country, and soon. Not to mention the other systems that are in shambles, that have run amuck with corruption, or this story would'nt have to be told, and I probably would'nt be reading it tonight.