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...time Cherlynn Mathias was ready to blow the whistle on Dr. Michael McGee two years ago, it had been clear for quite a while that something fishy was going on. For one thing, there were the hokey infomercials touting his experimental vaccine for malignant melanoma, a particularly nasty form of cancer, as if it were a Veg-O-Matic. Thanks to the vaccine, a patient declared onscreen, my cancer is in total remission. Then there was the sales pitch McGee delivered in person. When she and the doctor met with a prospective patient, says Mathias, who worked as his research...
Luckily for many of the patients in Dr. Michael McGee's vaccine trial, Cherlynn Mathias already had that attitude--though she has paid a price for her action. Facing nasty criticism from many of her colleagues at the University of Oklahoma and worried she would not be able to get decent medical treatment in Tulsa, she finally moved to Texas last August. Sometimes she wonders whether she did the right thing by sending that letter to the OHRP, but she is proud of the way the university responded...
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