MOLD HISTORY FRAGMENTS

TODAY: How Can You Seriously Trust This "Doctor"?

THE FAMOUS Doc LOST HIS MEDICAL LICENSE!

In 2013, the Maryland Board of Physicians found that Dr. Ritchie Shoemaker "failed to meet the standard of care."

As a result, Shoemaker chose to stop practicing medicine, issuing his resignation announcement a mere 8 weeks before the final hearing. The Board's order stated that "should the physician resume the practice of medicine, the physician will be placed on Probation for a minimum of two years with terms and conditions."

Not Shoemaker… just a reasonable facsimile.

Previously, in 2004, the FDA issued a warning letter to Dr. Shoemaker, charging him with seven violations and ordering him to stop injecting patients with a veterinary drug not licensed for human use. The FDA also found that he did not have a written protocol for a study, failed to get written informed consent from some subjects, and failed to obtain Institutional Review Board (IRB) approval for the study.

NOTE: following this loss of license to practice, he commenced his “tour” of training Functional Medicine and Naturopath offices all about CIRS and ERMI and even created a patented diagnostic method that requires expensive blood marker testing that has NEVER been validated as accurate.

This led to many patients (and actually their practitioners) believing that even one of these markers was “proof” of mold illness. They are not. Again - not valid.

He also promoted during those early years, 2013 - 2019, the use of ERMI for building testing and claimed, again without any validation, that it could predict and/or explain mold illness due to the presence of mold DNA. Again - this was not validated and remains a false claim. He even invented a new calculation called HERSTMI. Again, not valid (see my other short blogs about these methods and why they are not and will never be valid).

Sadly, to the chagrin of those who sincerely see all this non-valid testing and baseless diagnoses and treatments as a financial waste with unnecessary emotional stress placed upon patients with real symptoms, 1000’s of practitioners of all kinds continue to promote these methods for medical and environmental testing.