I recently read Dave Benja-min’s article "Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Proves Tough Medical Foe" in the Sept. 27 News Transcript and want to enlighten your readers.
I have been a practicing physician for more than 27 years. I was trained as an orthopedic surgeon with a deep-rooted medical, surgical and drug philosophy. That philosophy was dramatically altered when my own health failed and it became impossible for me to work.
I was diagnosed with heart disease, cancer and had had a stroke, and my medical colleagues were at an impasse as to what to do. I was given little chance for survival and all of modern medicine’s miracles could not save me.
My wife took responsibility for my health and researched alternatives and adjunctive therapies to traditional medical care. I discussed several alternative therapies with my colleagues, all of whom thought they were a waste of money and time. I was amazed that while no one was offering any hope or solution for my condition, no one wanted me to try any promising alternatives.
I began a series of intravenous chelation and intravenous vitamin therapies to detoxify and rebuild my body. By utilizing the best of traditional and alternative medicine, I have been given a good bill of health; I am back in practice (I now practice general and alternative medicine at Monmouth Advanced Medicine) and am brandishing a new philosophy on health care.
Health care needs to be a full partnership between the patient and the doctor. Health care needs to be a partnership between traditional and alternative health-care providers. Patients need to take more responsibility for their health through diet, exercise and research. In today’s world of HMOs, seven-minute office visits and miracle drugs, a patient’s good health is not a guarantee, but must be strived toward.
Dr. John Manzella
Freehold

