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Welcome to the Doctor Sarah MyHill mirror web site
Dr. Sarah MyHill is a physician in the UK with some very interesting things to say about nutrition, thyroid and adrenal disorders, detox, immunization and mitochondrial disorders.
I am Jackie Patti, the owner of this web site. I used to be a web developer, and before that a biochemist. As of this writing, I have been disabled due to severe fatigue and pain for almost 3 years. I own this domain and this web site, which I have put up as a protest against those who would impinge on scientific freedom of thought.
I have no relationship with Dr. MyHill, neither business nor personal. I don't know her at all. I am simply someone who has read her website in the course of seeking answers for my own illness, have admired much of her work, and am just utterly offended by the General Medical Council (GMC) decision discussed below.
Dr. MyHill is currently being harrased by the GMC, who's most recent verdict includes a gag order, requiring her to remove much material from her website. To quote this part of their decision:
2. Within 14 days of today's hearing you must ensure that in relation to your website, or any website relating to your medical practice or business, all pages, downloadable content, including documents, forum or discussion board content, or other references or online media relating to the following subjects must be removed:
a/ The medical management of cases relating to cardiology, or cardiovascular disease including; chest pain due to ischaemic heart disease; acute coronary syndrome; heart failure; or pulmonary embolus.
b/ The treatment of asthma;
c/ The treatment, testing, identification, diagnosis or management of breast cancer;
d/ The use of hormonal contraceptive medication;
e/ The pharmacological management of primary or secondary prevention of vascular disease;
f/ Any immunisation or vaccination;
Dr. MyHill is legally required to not discuss the advice she considers in the best interest of her patients, and is at risk of losing her medical license if she does not comply with said gag order.
Though I am in the US, I have admired her work from across the ocean. She has done ground-breaking work on mitochondrial dysfunction and has a voice that absolutely deserves to be heard within the debate about treatment for CFS and related disorders.
And though I do not agree with her in every detail and can easily imagine many lively disagreements I could have with her, I more strongly disagree that her voice should be silenced at the risk of her medical license. In my opinion, this is an utterly intolerable situation.
Scientific knowledge progresses by argument and dissension, no major discovery has ever occured without offending someone's current beliefs and practices. Aside from the unpalatable political implications of a gag order, it is entirely unscientific. This impinges not only on her free speech rights, but on academic freedom for ALL of us, and limits the ability of science to further our understanding of the world. If you disagree with her, the appropriate response is to disagree with rational argument and logical experiment, not to gag her.
As someone not subject to the GMC in any way, shape or form and deeply offended by their irrational and unscientific decision, I present to you her web site as it was on May 5, 2010, before the gag order kicked in.