Background History of the Gerson Clinic

Quackwatch article by Stephen Barrett, M.D., a National Council Against Health Fraud board member. Direct retrieval returned HTTP 403, so the live page content was read through a text-extraction proxy; its displayed publication date of 23 July 2006 was confirmed there. It reports loss of hospital privileges and malpractice insurance and a two-year New York County Medical Society suspension for radio advertising, following a 1947 NCI review of 10 selected cases and a society review of 86 patient records. NCI's own PDQ independently corroborates the society-suspension detail.