Abubakar and Roy Kerry - the ear, nose, throat doc

A quote from last year: Abubakar had been "an active child and a beautiful one to look at. He was vigorous and always running about the garden.".



Almost a year ago, Abubakar was killed in the office of Dr. Roy Eugene Kerry, an ear, nose and throat doctor, who is also a surgeon and allergy expert. We don't know why he decided to branch off so tangentially into chelation for what is likely imaginary heavy metal poisoning in autistic children. Abubakar's other doctor in the U.S. was a DAN! doctor whose website proclaimed that she had never seen an autistic child who was not in need of chelation. How is that? Maybe it's because the lab tests these people use consistently misrepresent the children's urine level of heavy metals, first by relying on "provoked" tests and then by comparing the metal level to creatinine instead of taking a 24 hour urine sample and measuring the amount of metal per volume, as should be done if they are going to use urine instead of blood. One advantage of urine tests is that the parents don't have to involve doctors or phlebotomists, and can just mail off the sample themselves to the quackery-driven lab of their choice. So, it would appear, from a distance, that Abubakar was not in need of any kind of chelation. But his parents had been led to believe that he did. Why they didn't just have him chelated in Britain is a huge mystery. Maybe he hadn't even been found to be "heavy metal toxic" until after he got to the United States and into the hands of questionable DAN! doctors.

At any rate, poor little Abubakar fell into extremely dangerous company in the office of Dr. Roy Kerry who was new to the autism biz and new to the chelation biz.

News out of Pennsylvania, today:

Special panel to review autistic boy's death
Prosecutor moving cautiously toward decision on criminal charges

Friday, August 18, 2006

By Karen Kane, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

It's been nearly a year since a 5-year-old boy died in a Butler County doctor's office after undergoing an unconventional treatment for his autism and authorities still are wrestling with whether the death was criminal or simply tragic.

"This has been a tough one," said District Attorney Randa Clark, who along with investigators from the Butler barracks of the Pennsylvania State Police has logged hours with medical experts, autism Web sites, and federal and state health officers in an effort to discern the right way to proceed.

Ms. Clark now is pinning her hopes for clarity on a pending review by a special body of the state attorney general's office. "I'm very pleased they have agreed to accept our case,'' Ms. Clark said of the attorney general's Medical/Legal Advisory Board on Child Abuse.

At the center of the case is Abubakar Tariq Nadama, a British boy who was brought to the United States by his mother, Marwa, specifically to receive chelation. It's a treatment that involves the administration of a liquid that pulls heavy metals from the bloodstream.

Though it is not embraced by the traditional medical community, the treatment has increased in popularity in recent years among those in autism circles who believe that the disorder is related to "metal poisoning."

Tariq, as he was known, was receiving Disodium EDTA intravenously in the Portersville office of Dr. Roy Eugene Kerry when he went into cardiac arrest, then died.

An autopsy determined the cardiac arrest was caused by a shortage of blood calcium. Dr. Mary Jean Brown of the Atlanta-based U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reviewed the autopsy and determined the chelation treatment itself would have been harmless had the child been given the correct agent.

Dr. Brown speculated there was a mix-up of medications in the doctor's office because the agents are colorless, odorless and sound alike. The agent the child was given was Disodium EDTA while the harmless agent would have been Calcium Disodium EDTA.

Other medical experts have questioned whether there was a medical mix-up or a mistake of ignorance. Doctors have told authorities that some groups supporting chelation have actually advertised Disodium EDTA as the proper agent to be used for the treatment of autism.

"There are many questions,'' Ms. Clark said.

The attorney general's advisory board will meet privately Sept. 20 in Harrisburg with the district attorney and state police investigators.

The panel is a body of about 50 experts who meet about six times annually on cases in which the evidence and its significance are inconclusive or unclear, said Barbara Petito, a spokeswoman for the attorney general's office.

"It's a fabulous resource. It would be almost impossible for an individual county to get immediate access to this range of experts," Ms. Petito said.

Members of the panel, which was created in 1988, include experts from an array of disciplines that include forensic pathology, pediatric medicine, neuroradiology, neuropathology and psychiatry, as well as district attorneys, police investigators and representatives from child protective services agencies.

Ms. Clark and Butler County Coroner William Young had initially considered holding a coroner's inquest into the death as a way of building a case. But Ms. Clark said she believes the expertise of the attorney general's panel should precede an inquest.

"At an inquest, you need medical experts lined up. When you go for an inquest, in my opinion, you're asking for a finding of criminal charges. I'm trying to figure out if I have grounds for an inquest. Do I have grounds to proceed criminally? I'm taking a cautious approach," she said.

The advisory panel reviews about 10 cases annually.

John P. Gismondi, a Pittsburgh attorney who specializes in medical malpractice and who is representing Mawra Nadama and her husband, a high-ranking doctor in Britain, said the family supports Ms. Clark's strategy.

"It's a year later and thhttp://www.blogger.com/img/gl.link.gifey remain in the dark and wondering what happened. Anything that sheds light on the situation is something that's useful and productive,'' Mr. Gismondi said.

He said the progress of the investigation "has been slower than they would have anticipated or liked but they are respectful of the process and they understand that these things can take time. They want to see it play out."

He said a civil lawsuit is "certainly an option that's being seriously considered" and he acknowledged that the pending criminal investigation is "influencing timing to some extent." Pennsylvania statutes allow two years for the filing of a civil claim.

Mr. Gismondi said he hopes the attorney general's advisory panel will help investigators determine why Tariq was given the wrong chelation agent. "There's no doubt he didn't get the right stuff.
The question is why," he said.

Lest we forget the words of Dr. Kerry's supplier of Disodium EDTA, a chemical that is used in industry as well as in food sometimes, and is said to be painful when received by I.V. infusion.

Dear Health Care Professionals:

You may soon read and hear the kind of hysteria and negative press that I expected to see, but it will get FAR WORSE before it gets better. As of this moment, I can only assume that there must have been a substantial deviation from the standard procedures that I, and all of you, have established for the safe administration of Calcium EDTA. As incredible as
it may seem to those of you belonging to this discussion group,

the possibility exists that the child was treated with Disodium EDTA administered by IV Push.

I am forced to consider this unfortunate explanation

unless there was some major undiagnosed illness in the child that no one suspected,
such as a major heart defect or perhaps an aneurism that ruptured at the
exact time the patient was receiving the IV Push of Calcium EDTA.

However, the autopsy has been completed and the results were inconclusive so that they have ordered additional tests, which may take up to 5 months to complete.

This means that there is no obvious explanation for the death of this child.

My fear is that if someone who is not knowledgeable in chelation

and has not learned that this is complex chemistry

assumes, for example, that all that they have to do to provide magnesium EDTA or Calcium EDTA

is just add either magnesium or calcium to a syringe containing Disodium EDTA.

We could have a serious problem because disodium EDTA has a black box warning about rapid administration to children and simply adding something like Calcium or Magnesium does not fully convert Disodium EDTA to Calcium EDTA.

Then there is also a problem with discomfort,

if you tried to give yourself an IV push of diluted Disodium EDTA

the pain could be extreme

so you might wind up increasing the dose of Lidocaine

and again we can get into problems with the heart

if too much of a "caine" if given intravenously.

So let's look at the big picture, there are NO DEATHS occurring when EDTA, either calcium or Disodium are PROPERLY administered. Now the media will try to make chelation out to be fraudulent and the tests that we do to measure lead etc as being meaningless. Amazingly they will bring out Quack buster Barrett who with a little more effort we may be able to one day put behind bars for his lies and incompetence.

Thus I have to conclude some error in rate of administration, dosage, method of preparation probably occurred; in fact, I now believe this is most likely rather than administering the correct drug, Calcium EDTA, intravenously, which even in children is safe and effective.

Doctors who have been providing this treatment to children can hardly stop talking about the remarkable successes they have been witnessing with children responding far more rapidly than we could ever do with just the oral Calcium EDTA that I have been advocating for so long.

We know that worldwide sales of all forms of EDTA have been steadily increasing and that based on logical calculations it appears that well over 10 million patients have been safely treated with either Calcium or Disodium EDTA over the past 32+ years without a single documented fatality, as long as the established protocols were followed. All the evidence to date that EDTA is perhaps the safest therapy offered in medicine, outside of placebos.

To my knowledge, EDTA has been safely administered for nearly 50 years with the only deaths occurring in the beginning, with terminal cancer patients suffering uncontrolled hypercalcemia where inappropriate doses of Disodium EDTA were administered by rapid infusion to patients with known compromised renal status.

With the extensive proof now existing that everyone today has nearly 1000 times too much lead in their bones and Harvard publishing that this bone lead will compromise vision there can be no argument that we all have some heavy metal toxicity. Then once we conclude that government cannot stop the mercury, cadmium, lead etc from going in the air, and thus into everyone anywhere on earth, then it becomes a matter of personal choice, live with these heavy metals or remove them. Oral chelation is clearly necessary since bone lead will take 10 years to turn over for the average adult, but some of us want results NOW. Nothing is as effective as the 147 fold increase in lead excretion over base line that IV Calcium EDTA, PROPERLY FORMULATED, was documented to induce by Doctors Data with the help of Dr Whitaker's staff.

Thus I must extend my sympathy to the family of the deceased 5-year-old boy from Nigeria whose brave mother came to the Pittsburgh area from the United Kingdom to seek treatment for her autistic child. She was seeing clear improvements in her son. This was the third infusion he had received. He apparently had a cardiac arrest and was unable to be resuscitated immediately following this third infusion of what I fear was not Calcium EDTA, which is the ONLY form of EDTA that I have advocated for the
exciting
rapid infusion
technique.

I hope those who have experience with it in their practice are NOT GOING TO STOP USING it that you have the "rest of the story", as best as we can establish it at this time.

Please understand that the involved doctors

cannot be expected to admit anything on advice of their attorneys.

I have only checked to see if they have ever purchased Calcium EDTA

and found the answer was

?no??

leading me to compose this email

in an attempt to diminish the harm

that the media will do to everyone who otherwise could have been receiving oral and or IV chelation and will now be afraid.

This email may be copied and handed to your patients in an effort to meet the need for a fully informed consent.

Sincerely,

Garry F. Gordon MD, DO, MD(H)
President, Gordon Research Institute
www.gordonresearch.com

Thank-you, again, Dr. Garry Gordon for those clarifying, if not comforting, words.

See also: When Quackery Kills

Autism Diva would dearly love to see Dr. Roy Kerry go to prison for his part in the death of Abubakar. Better would be if several more people of the mercury mob were punished along side him, but that's not so likely to happen - unfortunately.




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