Doctors sued over ‘dangerous’ autism treatment

The father of a 7-year-old Chicago boy who was diagnosed as a toddler with autism has sued the Naperville and Florida doctors who treated his son, alleging they harmed the child with "dangerous and unnecessary experimental treatments."
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The defendants — family-practice physicians Dr. Anjum Usman of Naperville and Dr. Daniel Rossignol of Melbourne, Fla. — are prominent in the Defeat Autism Now! movement, which promotes many of the alternative treatments the Tribune scrutinized. Both have spoken to groups of parents at autism conferences and trained other physicians in their methods.

Coman alleged in Cook County Circuit Court that Usman and Rossignol prescribed "medically unnecessary and unjustified" chelation treatments, designed to force the body to excrete toxic metals, even though the child did not suffer from heavy metal poisoning. The treatments carry a risk of kidney failure, the lawsuit alleges.

Chelation therapy is a legitimate medical procedure used to remove heavy metals from the body. It is a dangerous procedure.
After the whole autism, thimerosal, mercury, autism bullshit some of the people that bought the bullshit started using chelation therapy on children with autism. There is no evidence that mercury or any other heavy metals are responsible for autism and plenty of evidence against it.
This "doctor" tried to push a dangerous unnecessary procedure on a 7 year old. This guys license to practice medicine should be revoked and he should be thrown in jail. If the parents had followed the "doctors" advise, the chelation therapy could have harmed or even killed their child.
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