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    I wasn't sure where to put this... In an online CNN article today: 10 Shocking Medical Mistakes -- mistake #4 is fake doctors. Their example case is someone who saw Dr. Copes. If you go to the pictures above the article (patients' stories), the pictures are 6,7, and 8. There has been a lot written on here about him in the past so I thought some of you might be interested.

    http://www.cnn.com/2012/06/09/health...ml?hpt=hp_bn12
    71 and plugging along... but having some problems
    2007 52° w/ severe lumbar stenosis & L2L3 lateral listhesis (side shift)
    5/4/07 posterior fusion T2-L4 w/ laminectomies and osteotomies @L2L3, L3L4
    Dr. Kim Hammerberg, Rush Univ. Medical Center in Chicago

    Corrected to 15°
    CMT (type 2) DX in 2014, progressing
    10/2018 x-rays - spondylolisthesis at L4/L5 - Dr. DeWald is monitoring

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    First time I've ever seen a picture of him. I'd always imagined him with super slick hair. :-)

    In the early days of the internet, I took a lot of abuse for trying to fight Copes' claims. People were so desperate that they believed his claims without a single bit of evidence. It frustrated me to no end, that insurance companies were reimbursing for Copes' treatment without any evidence, at a time when many proven treatments were not reimbursed.
    Never argue with an idiot. They always drag you down to their level, and then they beat you with experience. --Twain
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    Surgery 1/20/11 A/P fusion L2-sacrum w/pelvic fixation

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      Originally posted by LindaRacine View Post
      In the early days of the internet, I took a lot of abuse for trying to fight Copes' claims. People were so desperate that they believed his claims without a single bit of evidence.
      You are the "Charles Darwin" of scoliosis forums! Evidence trumps faith every time.
      Sharon, mother of identical twin girls with scoliosis

      No island of sanity.

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        That was a very interesting article, Sharon. I had the same thing happen to me as the last girl with the anesthesia, or lack thereof. I needed my medical records from that hospital for another procedure that I was having. Needless to say I was SHOCKED that they had NO record of me being there and no record of my son's cesarian birth! I called the doctor who performed the operation (not the guilty party) and he had the records I needed. I don't know if he had the record of the anesthesia blooper, though.
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          Its hard to spot these guys sometimes........(smiley face)

          http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4uJyzWbBTTo

          Ed
          49 yr old male, now 63, the new 64...
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          Dr Brett Menmuir St Marys Hospital Reno,Nevada

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            Originally posted by titaniumed View Post
            Its hard to spot these guys sometimes........(smiley face)

            http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4uJyzWbBTTo

            Ed
            LOL! I love Benny Hill.
            Sharon, mother of identical twin girls with scoliosis

            No island of sanity.

            Question: What do you call alternative medicine that works?
            Answer: Medicine


            "We are all African."

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