ADDENDUM::'Doctor' treating First Nations girls says cancer patients can heal themselves - Aboriginal - CBC

Just to be clear, both cases cited in this article are very complex as we have a conflict of competing rights: children’s, parents’ and Indigenous peoples’.

In my initial posting concerning Makayla, I questioned the "cultural/religious" aspect first presented,

Makayla speaks eloquently and passionately about her wishes in a YouTube video,,,She also describes a vision of Jesus Christ she experienced in her hospital room. "I asked him, 'can you heal me?' and he said I was already healed," she says.

That is still in the back of my mind, although it has been "downplayed" in subsequent articles.

What is still bothersome is the treatment sought by both families,

“It is this court’s conclusion that (the mother’s) decision to pursue traditional medicine for her daughter is her aboriginal right,” Edward wrote. “Further, such a right cannot be qualified as a right only if it is proven to work by employing the western medical paradigm. To do so would be to leave open the opportunity to perpetually erode aboriginal rights.”

What is highlighted in this article IMO is not "traditional" medicine.

But, and I touched on this briefly before, after reading some very passionate and well thought out comments - I have to admit that I did not take the issue of jurisdiction as seriously as I should have.

Traditional medicines and such have nothing to do with the issue, that is just a red herring that so many are willing to bite. As her mother is Christian and not a traditionalist or follower of Handsome Lake, it is a question of jurisdiction, Ontario has no more right to order this child than a politician from New Brunswick. She is a daughter of the Haundenosaunee, the Six Nations, and they have authority over this matter.

All that aside, this quack needs to be shut down,,,

A Florida health resort licensed as a “massage establishment” is treating a young Ontario First Nations girl with leukemia using cold laser therapy, Vitamin C injections and a strict raw food diet, among other therapies.

The mother of the 11-year-old girl, who can not be identified because of a publication ban, says the resort’s director, Brian Clement, who goes by the title “Dr.,” told her leukemia is “not difficult to treat.”
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The resort has declined CBC’s request for an interview with Clement, who is described as a “naturopathic doctor” on the resort’s website.

But the Florida state health authority has said Clement is not a licensed doctor or naturopath, and inquiries regarding the institutions where he is described in online biographies as having earned degrees have raised questions about their credibility.

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The family of Makayla Sault, who is the same age, has the same type of leukemia and lives in a nearby First Nation made a similar decision to leave chemotherapy earlier this year.

Both families travelled to West Palm Beach and paid more than $18,000 each for Clement’s “Life Transformation Program” at the Hippocrates Health Institute (HHI).

Makayla relapsed after returning from HHI. She was hospitalized last week and is said to be critically ill.

The other girl has also returned home, but her mother says HHI is continuing to provide care by analyzing blood test results sent by mail.

He’s been giving lectures in and around both girls’ communities in recent months, including one event attended by Makayla’s family this past May.

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In a video obtained by CBC News, Clement says his institute teaches people to “heal themselves” from cancer by eating raw, organic vegetables and having a positive attitude.

“We've had more people reverse cancer than any institute in the history of health care,” he says.

“So when McGill fails or Toronto hospital fails, they come to us. Stage four (cancer), and they reverse it.”

'Doctor' treating First Nations girls says cancer patients can heal themselves - Aboriginal - CBC