"Complaint Filed Against Use of Typhoid Vaccine for AIDS"

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"Complaint Filed Against Use of Typhoid Vaccine for AIDS"

Bay Area Reporter (12/29/88) Vol. 18, No. 52, P. 1
Newquist, Jay

Abstract: The California Board of Medical Quality Assurance has received a complaint from a person with AIDS who charged a San Francisco physician with unprofessional conduct. Craig Black says he made two visits in November 1988 to the offices of Dr. Lewis E. Mehl + Associates, physicians who administer typhoid vaccine as an AIDS treatment. Mehl's associate Dr. Learie Yuhl charged him $550 at the beginning of treatment, Black says, but did not perform a full physical examination, take a patient history, or do full laboratory bloodwork. Although literature on the typhoid treatment that the physicians gave him to read said a person who has been on AZT should stop taking it for a month before undergoing the so-called Catapano protocol, Black says Dr. Yuile administered a shot on his first visit, while he was taking the approved AIDS drug. Black says the doctors, whose office is in the back of a restAUrant, "play on hopes and fears of people sick with AIDS in order to make a buck." Black said he was not criticizing the typhoid protocol, per se, but the methods the physicians used. Yuille no longer works for Mehl, who says he refunded part of Black's money. Michael Smith, a person with AIDS who works as a volunteer for Mehl, defended the doctor and his unconventional methods.
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