Hallwang Clinic

[[File:Logo Hallwang Clinic English.png|thumb|left|Hallwang Clinic logo]]
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'''Hallwang Clinic''' is a private medical facility in Dornstetten, [[Germany]], specializing in [[Integrative_medicine|integrative]] [[cancer]] treatments.

Up until 2014 “Hallwang Clinic” was called “Privatklinik Dr. Ursula Jacob” <ref>[http://archive.is/Ua6bo#selection-731.0-761.21 "Hallwang Clinic GmbH" was "Dr. Ursula Jacob GmbH"].</ref> : the name of the medical-director of that “oncology clinic”. If Hallwang's Dr. Ursula Jacob has formal qualifications as an oncologist she has omitted to include them on her résumé.<ref>[http://archive.is/Zeko4 The résumé of "Dr. Ursula Jacob"].</ref> 

One of Dr. Jacob's famous cancer patients was the American actress {{wpl|Farrah Fawcett}}<ref>[http://www.imdb.com/name/nm3559118/ Dr Ursula Jacob's credits in Farrah Fawcett movies].</ref>. A more recent famous customer at Hallwang Clinic is the English actress {{wpl|Leah Bracknell||.}} (Suspension-of-disbelief is required by actors in their workplace, apparently some have that mindset permanently).

"Hallwang Clinic GmbH" has been in existence since 2007, and they state that they have had "over 7,000 patients"<ref>[http://player.slideplayer.com/10/2871134/ See slide #4]</ref>, but you'll have a hard-job finding internet-posts by any of those 7000 claiming they've been cured by visiting Hallwang.'''<ref>[http://bfy.tw/8PXd A google-search for any satisfied Hallwang customers].</ref>''' 

==Ewe shouldn't go there==

{{quackbox|The theory behind cellular therapy is senseless. The American Cancer Society has strongly advised people not to seek it. Under ordinary circumstances, cells from the organs of one species cannot replace the cells from the organs of other species. When foreign proteins are injected, the immune system attacks them. In addition, injections of animal cells can spread viral disease and trigger severe allergic reactions. When taken by mouth, animal cells are digested and are not absorbed intact into the body.|<ref>Stephen Barrett,[http://www.quackwatch.com/01QuackeryRelatedTopics/Cancer/cellular.html Cellular Therapy], 21 August 2003.</ref>}}

The clinic is not limited to treating people with cancer: patients with a wide-variety of disorders, including [[multiple sclerosis]], [[chronic fatigue syndrome]], diabetes, meningitis, [[irritable bowel syndrome]], etc., have received {{wpl|live cell therapy}} at Hallwang Clinic. Specifically, '''they are injected with "fresh" live [[sheep]]-fetus cells.'''<ref>[http://player.slideplayer.com/10/2871134/ See slides #81 #83 #86 #91 #97]</ref>

However transplanting sheep cells is a baaa…d idea, as they would be rejected by the human immune system, and would never survive in a person, so could not be "regenerative". So such xenotransplants are doomed to failure, and have some risk attached via the immune-response to the foreign material injected, and possibly via transmission of zoonotic disease.

In addition to minuscule portions of "fresh" lamb, the Hallwang treatment-menu includes other guaranteed-failures such as [[homoeopathy]], [[ozone therapy]], [[amygdalin]], and [[orthomolecular medicine]].<ref>[http://archive.is/ZOvv3#selection-3445.0-3445.40 The treatment menu at Hallwang Clinic].</ref> Although some of the items on their menu ''appear to be'' proven medical treatments. However, given the context, prospective customers should have those apparently legit treatment-options surveyed by an independent expert who is qualified to judge whether those treatments have any chance of success in their case, and are worth the price of a house (reportedly the cost of cancer treatment at Hallwang Clinic can reach £250K).<ref>[http://archive.is/1EIql#selection-865.37-865.52 GoFundMe for "Dominic Bergin" £250,000 target '''†'''].</ref><ref>[http://archive.is/miSUU#selection-3651.293-3651.324 GoFundMe for "Kate Anne Douglas" 
£250,000
 £370,000 target '''†'''].</ref>

==International con-nections==
People travel from across the globe to get to Hallwang Clinic, including the staff, one of whom, Dr Gregory Hans Schwarz, was from [[Australia]].<ref>[http://archive.is/btvMS#selection-89.0-89.567 Résumé of Hobart's "Dr Greg Schwarz"].</ref> The Aussies are very obliging: they'll do anything to help a mate.<ref>[http://web.archive.org/web/20161028030021/http://www.abc.net.au/news/2005-08-03/tribunal-examines-doctors-conduct/2072840 Hobart's "Dr Greg Schwarz" in trouble in 2005].</ref>

Hallwang Clinic uses a company called "RGCC Central Europe GmbH" to perform tests on patient's blood to evaluate any cancer cells present<ref>[https://www.youtube.com/user/RGCCLTD Promotional YouTube video for RGCC Ltd].</ref>. Coincidentally its managing director, Dr Ioannis Papasotiriou, was also a managing-director of Hallwang Clinic.<ref>[http://archive.is/JQM5m English translation of www.moneyhouse.de/Ioannis-Papasotiriou]</ref> Dr Papasotiriou is billed as "a patent holder" of the RGCC blood-test<ref>[https://youtu.be/r572yQ1Zex0?t=13s Dr Ioannis Papasotiriou introduced as "patent holder"].</ref>, but according to Google, no patents have been granted to someone with his name: there is just one patent ''application'' for a proposed cancer treatment,<ref>[http://archive.is/Y5Dsz Google says: 1 patent application, No patent granted].</ref> (which is not a blood test, or a patent).

The results of those RGCC blood tests are used to determine which cancer treatment is best for that particular patient, (e.g. a treatment only available at Hallwang Clinic<ref>[https://youtu.be/rv57ww_ai0k?t=13m26s An RGGC test reports that the optimum cancer treatments are only available in Germany.]</ref>), and whether an applied treatment has been effective and should be r€p€at€d in the future. As they are proprietary blood tests it's not possible to independently replicate that exact same blood-work to check their accuracy. The American branch of RGCC is run by a [[chiropractor]] called Ray Hammon.<ref>https://rgcc-group.com/index.php?page=personnel.rgcc.usa</ref> Like all chiropractors, Ray is misleading his customers into believing he's realigning their vertebrae, and in his case also misleading them into believing intravenous-injections of [[Hydrogen_peroxide#Hydrogen_peroxide|hydrogen-peroxide]] and [[Chelation therapy|EDTA]] are a good idea.<ref>[http://archive.is/V7w5w#selection-79.47-79.65 Not an advert for chelationist "Dr. Ray Hammon, DC", honest].</ref>

An American doctor of medicine called "James W Forsythe, MD, HMD"<ref>[http://www.centurywellness.com/cancer-treatment-approach Dr Forsythe's website "centurywellness"].</ref>, does recommend RGCC blood tests<ref>[https://youtu.be/U3aUvpaO2Mw?t=3m26s Dr Forsythe praises RGCC tests on YouTube].</ref>. However that Dr Forsythe has been disciplined* repeatedly: for medical malpractice<ref>[http://www.casewatch.org/board/med/forsythe/complaint.shtml Disciplinary Actions against 
James W. Forsythe, M.D.]</ref> & overcharging for laboratory-tests performed outside his office<ref>[http://medboard.nv.gov/Patients/Disciplinary/DisciplinaryActions Click on ''"Forsythe, James W., M.D. | License No. 2864"''].</ref>. (* Anyone with an M.D. qualification who describes themselves as being an alternative / complementary / integrative practitioner, has another skeleton in their closet in addition to a didactic one).

A "Dr. Kevin Bethel MD CM FAARM FICT" at the "IAT clinic in the Bahamas" is another MD in who recommends RGCC testing.<ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-p4h7Pim0pM Dr. Kevin Bethel describes RGCC testing on YouTube].</ref> "FICT" is a qualification from {{wpl|A4M#Legal_disputes|A4M}}: so it may as well mean FICTional. (The "IAT clinic in the Bahamas" has been in serious trouble in the past<ref>[http://www.quackwatch.org/01QuackeryRelatedTopics/OTA/ota06.html AIDS & Hepatitis-B at "IAT clinic in the Bahamas" in 1985]</ref>). "IAT" is purportedly a form of '''immunotherapy''', which was invented by zoologist Lawrence Burton in the 1970's.<ref>[http://www.quackwatch.org/01QuackeryRelatedTopics/Cancer/iat.html The full IAT story on the QuackWatch website.].</ref> However no independent evidence that IAT is an effective cancer treatment,<ref>[https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/8411503 JAMA article says IAT doesn't work].</ref> and the blood-products involved in IAT are banned from USA by the FDA.<ref>[http://www.accessdata.fda.gov/cms_ia/importalert_781.html FDA says IAT is hazardous].</ref>

==Geschäftsführer== 
The current managing director of Hallwang Clinic is Dr. Albert Schmierer,<ref>[http://archive.is/Ua6bo#selection-309.0-329.16 Managing-Director of Hallwang Clinic is homeopath ''"Dr. Albert Schmierer"''].</ref> not a doctor of medicine, but allegedly a "pharmacist". His family business "Dr Zinsser Pharmaceuticals" sells homeopathic remedies<ref>[http://archive.is/oTVic#selection-993.0-993.445 Albert Schmierer's family have been selling pretend-medicine for over 50 years.]</ref> , including ones derived from toxic substances such as strychnine,<ref>[http://archive.is/Dbgha#selection-2397.0-2397.10 A page from the "Dr Zinsser" website showing "Nux vomica" (strychnine)].</ref> however diluted to the point where none of the active ingredient is present in the product sold, as is the norm in the fraud that is [[homeopathy]]. I.e. the managing-director of Hallwang Clinic sells customers a mixture of distilled-water & alcohol, with '''no active ingredient''', as if it was medicine. The treatments offered by his clinic should be viewed with that in mind.

==External links==
*[https://www.hallwang-clinic.com Official website]
*[http://archive.is/fb4K2#selection-1269.33-1269.34 The image of the operating-room used in Hallwang Clinic advertising looks impressive], but [https://www.shutterstock.com/image-photo/ultrasound-operating-room-182346872 it's just a stock-photo].
*[http://archive.is/VxKF0#selection-4341.1-4341.296 A statement from Hallwang clinic claiming they don't do press-interviews in order to preserve patient-confidentiality].<br> That statement is on [http://archive.is/VxKF0 their FaceBook page which includes the names and pictures of Hallwang patients]. 
*[http://slidegur.com/doc/1853550/privatklinik-dr.-ursula-jacob-gmbh Sideshow for ''"Privatklinik Dr.Ursula Jacob GmbH"'' from 2012 says ''"Over 7,000 patients treated"'', (on slide #3)].<br>If the 7000 figure is correct, and they've continued at that rate, there should be over 10,000 customers by 2016.
*[https://youtu.be/TbSIOUg0zVw?t=3m3s Video where Dr Ursula Jacob claims[[Mercury_amalgam_fillings#Mercury_amalgam_fillings| tooth fillings]] have some relevance in cancer causation & cancer treatment].
*[https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=auto&tl=en&js=y&prev=_t&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&u=https://www.psiram.com/ge/index.php/Hallwang_Klinik&edit-text=&act=url English translation of the German PSIRAM-page on Hallwang Clinic] , ([[Psiram|PSIRAM]] is like RationalWiki, but without the [[Snark#RationalWiki_does_have_a_sense_of_humor|snark]]).
*Peter Trayhurn '''†''' blogged about his cancer-treatment at Hallwang Clinic: [http://archive.is/NQ8nL#selection-47.1-47.45 initially (in 2013) his reports were positive],<br>but [http://archive.is/I6NFn#selection-1137.303-1137.811 latterly (2016) he described the doctors he encountered there as ''"greedy ... reckless ... vultures"''].
*Reportedly [https://www.southampton.ac.uk/medicine/about/staff/cho.page Professor Christian Ottensmeier] [https://www.independent.co.uk/news/health/crowdfunding-cancer-cure-pseudoscience-evidence-symptoms-alternative-medicine-homeopathy-bmj-a8535081.html believes Hallwang patients are being overcharged for the evidence-based treatment they receive there.]
*[https://longreads.com/2018/03/22/the-last-resort/ An in-depth article on Hallwang Clinic published in 2018][http://www.lindsaygellman.com/about/ by Lindsay Gellman].
*[http://www.quackwatch.com/01QuackeryRelatedTopics/Cancer/cellular.html An article on "cellular therapy"], (e.g. injections of fresh/live sheep fetus cells), by [[Stephen Barrett]].  
*[https://youtu.be/iHm5c9MU7xU?t=3m03s Sellers of the ovine Zell-V products], (as recommended by [http://www.zell-v.com/html/medicalpanel-drursula.html Dr Jacob] & [http://www.zell-v.com/html/medicalpanel-dralbert.html Dr Schmierer]), look like they're doing [[live blood analysis]] on the prospective customers.
*[https://www.moneyhouse.de/Hallwang-Clinic-GmbH-Dornstetten A diagram (grafisches netzwerk) showing the relationships between "Hallwang Clinic GmbH" and other companies, (e.g. "RGCC Central Europe GmbH").]
*[https://rgcc-group.com/assets/tests.samples/ Examples of RGCC blood-test results]. The small-print at the at the bottom of those examples includes the European-equivalent of a [[quack Miranda warning]].
*[http://www.nutripath.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/NPATH-RGCC-Practitioner-Manual-v0.2.pdf A copy of the ''"NutriPATH (Integrative Pathology Services) Practitioner Manual"'' for RGCC blood-testing].

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