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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...
...what they got, once they joined McGee's clinical trial, many patients say, was a different story. According to Mathias, more than a third developed severe side effects, including uncontrollable nausea, fevers, rashes, swelling and terrible headaches. Some thought the doctor's behavior was odd. While on the vaccine, one patient, Dawanna Robertson, discovered she was pregnant; she panicked when she recalled the warning on the consent form she had signed: "The potential effects of these drugs on the growing fetus...may include serious birth defects." Yet when she voiced her fears, Robertson says, McGee assured her that the vaccine...
Still, Mathias says, most of McGee's patients believed that this vaccine was their best chance for recovery from what is usually a fatal disease. That's why they were so shocked when McGee sent them a letter that read, in part, "Patients have enrolled in this study more rapidly than originally expected...Due to this interest, the sponsor has exceeded its capacity to supply the experimental Melanoma Vaccine and is unable to provide material for further injections at this time...
...letter was devastating enough, but Mathias knew it was a lie. The truth was that the trial had been suspended out of a growing concern among McGee's supervisors that it may have been doing more harm than good. So after agonizing for days about what to do, she wrote a long, detailed letter to what is now called the federal Office for Human Research Protections (OHRP), describing McGee's multiple lapses. Her letter reported that McGee had, among other things, stored the vaccine improperly, exposing it to potential contamination; failed to maintain adequate records and track its consistency from...
...says Pat McGee Band, a top pick in a survey taken last semester, and Jurassic 5 are being considered by the council as the main...