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The practice of good medicine is being criminalized and excellent doctors are loosing their licenses when they refuse to tow the pharmaceutical line. State Medical Boards, like the FDA, use intimidation and unconstitutional methods to put doctors practicing innovative, drug-free medicine out of business.

William Rea, MD, is an outstanding doctor who is the latest in this series of doctors under attack for practicing good medicine. The Texas Medical Board (which has tried to take his license in the past and failed) is charging Dr. Rea with malpractice and other serious charges based on claims that they will not reveal by parties they will not identify regarding five patients who have gone on record saying that they are currently in treatment with Dr. Rea and are more than happy with that treatment.

All five live in the same area and are insured by the same insurance company. Complaints by insurance companies to Medical Boards when doctors do not accept insurance payments (Dr. Rea does not) and do not use conventional allopathic (that is, drug) treatments (Dr. Rea does not) are increasingly common and are costing doctors their licenses and patients their access to good doctors.

Whether you live in Texas, where Dr. Rea practices or in another state, the pattern and problem is widespread and it is vitally important that State Legislators hear your dissatisfaction with this suppresion of your health freedom and your doctor's.

Let the Texas Medical Board hear loud and clear that patients and professionals alike will not tolerate violating both the Constitution of the United States and the health freedoms we enjoy in this country.

Dr. William Rea is an outstanding pioneer in Environmental Medicine whose knowledge and skill have made it possible for untold numbers of patients to recover from crippling conditions. He is a revered teacher and scholar and an exemplary clinician.

Frighteningly, Dr. Rea is only one of a growing number of innovative natural physicians who is being attacked through similar means in the states in which they work.

Dr. Rea's letter makes it clear that, despite Constitutional guarantees,

"the [Texas Medical] board refuses to officially
reveal who made the complaint, what I am alleged to have done, or what evidence was presented against me. They continually maintain that this information is protected and does not have to be revealed.... Of course, these attempts are also being made in order to try and standardize treatments and make all patients fit into one “box.” Americans need more choices in health care, not fewer. We
hope you, as an informed citizen, want to be part of an effort to help preserve freedom of choice in health care. Insurance carriers and a small group of “Quack busters” should not be allowed to decide what type of health care is available in this country.

It is unconscionable that the Texas Medical Board would want to limit freedom of choice in health care, and allow insurance carriers to interfere with the doctor-patient relationship. Please join our effort for freedom of choice in health care and write your protest to members of the
Texas Legislature. "

Please take a moment to send the letter below to the members of the Texas legislature asking them to protect leading edge doctors from third parties attempting to use the Medical Boards to interfere with the doctor-patient relationship, stip doctors of the Constitutional rights and deprive patients of the freedom to choose the type of medicine they wish to use for their own health and well-being.

Thank you for your efforts on behalf of health freedom. Please forward this information widely and ask your contacts to take these action steps as well.

Yours in health and freedom,

Dr. Rima

Rima E. Laibow, MD

Medical Director

Natural Solutions Foundation

www.HealthFreedomUSA.org

www.GlobalHealthFreedom.org

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November 21, 2009

Subject:

Dear Texas Legislator

Dear Texas Legislator,
I am writing to you today at the suggestion of the Natural Solutions Foundation, a Non Governmental Organization focused on health freedom in the US and abroad concerning a serious miscarriage of responsibility and rights currently being perpetrated by the Texas Medical Board against William J. Rea, MD.

Dr. Rea is a world-famous pioneer in Environmental Medicine and the Medical Director of the Environmental Health Center - Dallas.  Acting on "anonymous third party information" concerning 5 patients currently in Dr. Rea's care, the Board has been investigating Dr. Rea since October of 2005 on suspicion of practicing sub-standard care and "endangering public health".  The patients whom the complaint focuses on have all written letters to the Board stating that Dr. Rea is their current physician, that they are very happy with the care they have received and that, in two cases, Dr. Rea saved their lives.

Despite that satisfaction, the Board continues to pursue de-licensing Dr. Rea while refusing to reveal what the charges are, who made them, what the evidence supporting them is or any other information about the charges. This is clearly a violation not only of patient-doctor confidentiality but of Dr. Rea's Constitutional rights to confront his accuser, examine the evidence brought against him and have a fair hearing.

In addition, the review of Dr. Rea's charts in these cases was carried out by a physician unfamiliar with Dr. Rea's practice methods, Environmental Medicine so his assessment of the "sub-standard care" he alleged was rendered by Dr. Rea does not reflect any understanding of the specialized methods used by Environmental Medicine specialists.  It is like a pathologist reviewing the practice of a gynecologist: while both are doctors, the reviewer would have neither competence nor standing in the other specialist's practice assessment.

Dr. Rea points out that this assault is part of "an organized nation-wide effort to destroy the specialty of Environmental Medicine and to eliminate from practice physicians who diagnose and treat patients suffering from chemical sensitivities."  Similar cases across the country do, in fact, make it clear that undue pressure is being exerted on Medical Boards to remove pioneering physicians from practice in favor of compliant physicians and eliminating innovative ones, especially where they use modalities other than drugs.

Dr. Rea is a world-famous, revered expert in Environmental Medicine and is widely regarded as the dean of that specialty.  His patients, including the 5 whose privacy rights have been violated by the Board, and his colleagues revere him.

If there were a case against Dr. Rea or any other physician, it should be pursued in a fashion consistent with the Constitution of the United States. This case is part of a kangaroo court attempt to stamp out creative medicine and has nothing to do with either due process or public safety.

I urge you, in your role as a Texas legislator, to bring the Texas Medical Board under strict control to assure that both the public and professionals are protected from special interests and miscarriages of due process, common sense and justice.

Thank you for your support of health freedom and the rights of doctors and patients.

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