[As I posted previously, I felt Elian had been drugged. --MS]
THE BOY WITHOUT A COUNTRY
Elian doctors practicing without license?
Physicians' group fears drugs used to recondition 6-year-old
By David M. Bresnahan � 2000 WorldNetDaily.com
A prominent national group of physicians claims Cuban doctors
treating Elian Gonzalez are practicing without a license, and is
asking state officials to step in and force them to stop.
Jane Orient, M.D., executive director of the Association of
American Physicians and Surgeons, told WorldNetDaily she believes
the doctors from Cuba are not licensed and may be using drugs to
condition Elian before he appears in court. She said a letter of
complaint would be filed today in Maryland.
Elian, 6, suffered a traumatic seizure when he was taken at
gunpoint in a frightening raid by government agents, according to
Orient. She said she does not trust the "glowing reports" from
unnamed government-appointed doctors that Elian has not suffered
any adverse effects from the raid.
"The child's being treated by Cubans who are not licensed to
practice in the United States," said Orient.
Does she believe Elian has been given drugs to control his
behavior?
"Sure," she said. "They may be using drugs, or maybe they're
just using manipulation, isolation, seclusion, and threats and
promises. I mean, how do you find out what's going on in there?"
U.S. marshals at the Aspen Institute in Wye, Maryland, are
holding the boy under guard. Many Cubans have been permitted to
be with him, but lawyers, doctors, the press and even elected
officials have been prevented from observing Elian.
Drugs were confiscated from the Cubans as they entered the U.S.
and again when they left, according to several press reports.
Orient said one drug involved was Meprobamate, which is also
known as Miltown.
"I don't think it's used very much in this country at all
anymore. It's certainly not supposed to be used on children,"
Orient explained. She said it is an anti-anxiety drug used to
"calm the person down and make him more amenable to whatever
suggestions his keepers want to make. I suppose for many people
it just has a mind-numbing effect."
Insulin was also confiscated by U.S. officials, which caused
Orient concern.
"Certainly that's a method of psychological torture, or even life
threatening to induce insulin shock in somebody," she told
WorldNetDaily in a phone interview.
"What we're going to do now is, we're calling on the state of
Maryland to throw those Cuban doctors out. The State Department
may have let them in, but it's up to the states who can practice
medicine in individual states," said Kathryn Serkes, spokesperson
for the group.
Orient has already asked Attorney General Janet Reno to prevent
the Cuban doctors from treating Elian on the grounds that they do
not have a license to practice here. Her letter has gone
unanswered, so now she is taking her complaint to the state of
Maryland.
Orient sent letters to Reno and Immigration and Naturalization
Service Commissioner, Doris Meissner, asking them to disclose the
names and backgrounds of all government-appointed medical
personnel involved in the treatment or evaluation of the boy,
including psychiatrists and psychologists. There has been no
response.
"We are extremely concerned about Elian's physical and emotional
well-being. Based on the experience of the past two weeks, we're
not confident that the glowing reports from anonymous government
doctors of the boy's easy adjustment following a traumatic
seizure at gunpoint are indeed, unbiased, or for that matter,
first-hand," said Orient in the letters.
Elian's personal doctor has also expressed great concern over
what has happened, and she has not been permitted to see Elian
since he was taken and placed in seclusion.
"The bottom line is, you've got Dr. Lydia Usategui who was
legally treating the boy with the permission of the guardians.
She was tear gassed the morning of the raid. Then Elian's handed
over to Cuban doctors who are in this country practicing
illegally. So if the feds won't do anything about it, we're
going to the state of Maryland and calling for them to tell these
doctors that they can't practice in the U.S. without a license,"
explained Serkes.
Both Usategui and her husband Alfred Manrara were present during
the government raid to take the boy by force.
"On the day of the raid by federal agents, Lydia was on the back
porch of Lazaro's home and had a submachine gun pointed at her as
she was told to lie on the ground and look down, then they
sprayed pepper gas at her as they departed," explained Manrara in
a written report provided to WorldNetDaily.
"Her intention had been to be inside the home next to the child
to witness (as a psychiatrist) how the Justice Department would
do the removal of the child from his Miami family (never
imagining that it would be violent or with such brutal force),"
wrote Manrara. "However, as the federal agents approached the
house, the rear door to the porch was closed by the family before
she could get inside, and she remained in the rear porch
throughout the assault.
"Meanwhile, I (there to accompany my wife) was within 10 feet of
the home's front door, was thrown by the agents against a fence,
got pepper gas, and witnessed the screaming child being taken
right in front of me to the waiting van," explained Manrara.
Orient and Serkes believe Elian is being drugged so he can be
conditioned and prepared for his court appearance. (My Note:
apparently Elian was not yet properly conditioned, and so did not
appear in court earlier today.)
"We can't go in and ask them to release his medical records,
because from our viewpoint that would violate his rights, which
have already been violated. We don't want to call for that,
although we'd like to know because the thing is that, well we'd
like to know if he's being brainwashed, getting drugs, or
whatever, but we don't feel that we can properly ask that. So
what we could probably ask for is who are these people, and at
least reveal their conflict of interest and at least throw out
the team of Cuban brain washers," explained Serkes.
She said she has spoken extensively with Usategui who believes
Elian's stubborn desire to stay in the U.S. has proven
challenging for Cuban doctors trying to recondition him.
"It's her assessment that they're not getting anywhere, because
if they were getting anywhere they'd have him propped up in front
of a camera making a statement by now. She said he's a pretty
hardheaded little boy about that. He does not want to go back to
Cuba. She said he was very clear about that. He had no problem
being with his father, but he does not want to go back," said
Serkes.
Orient complained that Dr. Irwin Redlener was appointed by the
INS to provide information to the Justice Department without ever
personally examining Elian. Redlener is a prominent pediatrician
with longstanding political ties to President Bill Clinton and
First Lady Hillary Clinton. He played a significant role in the
drafting of the failed Clinton health care reform package.
"We are appalled that the Department of Justice and the INS may
have relied on the armchair diagnosis of an administration
operative in making their decision to go ahead with a frightening
raid in the dark," said Orient.
Redlener never personally examined Elian, was never given
permission to treat him, and he and other government appointed
doctors never requested copies of his medical records, according
to Usategui.
"We're just appalled at this, and we're appalled that doctors
would allow themselves to be used as propaganda pawns," Serkes
stated.
The U.S. State Department has not provided the Cuban government
with everything President Fidel Castro has demanded. Castro has
been critical of U.S. policy that reduces the number of Cubans
who are permitted to be with Elian.
If Castro had his way, dozens of psychologists, doctors, and
Elian's classmates should be permitted into the U.S. to be with
the young boy at the center of the international political
debate. Far fewer were permitted in than requested, and Castro
has expressed great anger over the failure of the U.S.
government to comply with his demands.
Only his previously estranged father, stepmother, infant
stepbrother, a few doctors, and a few classmates have been
permitted to stay with him. Another stepbrother and many
additional extended family members have been forced to stay
behind in Cuba.
Castro is said to be desperate to get Elian back to Cuba because
of a prophecy issued by an African-based religion known as
Santeria. The popular religion has designated Elian as the
reincarnation of the Christ Child, known as El Egua. The
prophecy states that Castro will remain in power only if El Egua
is returned to Cuba.
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