Self Proclaimed Doctors within the Dubs

by ShirleyW 15 Replies latest jw friends

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  ShirleyW

  A previous post regarding herbal meds brings to mind two people, of course they're Dubs, that swindled those in "da troof"

  Back in the day, when my mother was first brainwashed and attended the Edgecombe Cong in Harlem there were two teenagers, Shirley and Gladstone Widdick, whose father was a JW but there mother was not (SMART WOMAN) they even relocated to Queens around the same time we did in the early 1960's. Many, many decades later, there seems to be some kind of buzz within the congregation that iridiologist (sp), I'll just call him the guy that looks in your eye and can diagnose every problem you've had since birth, is going to be in his hometown in New York and that he was "hangin' up the shingle" while he was here, needless to say this self-proclaimed Dr/Quack was Dr. Gladstone Widdick and his book of appointments I'm sure was longer than the Dr. that performed Bill Clinton's open heart surgery.

  I believe he was/is located in the North Carolina area, are somewhere in around there, any of you every had your eyes gazed into by this Dr/Quack ??

  And for those in the NYC area and other states surrounding, does the name "Dr. Maria" ring a bell, who was/is located in Bronx? She was an herbalist and her appt book rivaled that of a most noted cardiologist also. When my dad was dying of cancer my mother carted him off to this quack and was told such BS as "when he gets nauseous give him grape juice" !!

  We all now know that grape juice is an excellent source for antioxidants, but when you're obviously caught up in the final stages of the Big C, just how is grape juice going to help in any way?? Any of my Northeast fellow apostates familiar with Dr. Maria, and just what quackery did she recommend to you?
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  Rooster

  Jw's are a different breed. They don't think they are ever going to die. My mother took my father for a year to one of these types of doctors, he had cancer and yes he died!

  Can you say hocus-pocus.
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  ex-nj-jw

  My parents went to some quack in NC who looked into their eyes - had them doing garlic enemas twice a day Had them taking about 20 herbal pills a day each.

  He failed to tell them of the stroke they would both have and also the heart problems my dad would end up with

  nj
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  NewYork44M

  That name does not ring a bell. But my ex-wife was always (and probably still is) involved with these self proclaimed quacks. There was always five or six women in the congregation that would go from one quack to the next. One name stands out, "Christa." She was in SW Florida and i think she moved to NC or SC. Many witnesses were involved with this quack and there were some strange wt connections that I never did figure out.

  My ex spent a lot of time and money with that woman and the whole thing totally drove me crazy.
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  delilah

  I had to chuckle at this topic. My mom and her sisters and brother, take every herbal pill, and remedy going, for this and that...and yet they are the sickest bunch I've ever seen. I think they take far too many things and it all counteracts against each other...

  My mom has a shoebox full of stuff she takes with her if they go overnight somewhere...and yet, every time I talk with her, she's just getting over one illness or another.
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  NewYork44M

  My mom has a shoebox full of stuff she takes with her if they go overnight somewhere

  A shoebox full does not even come close to the intensity my ex and her friends have to herbs. These peolpe had a closet full of pills. I've seen my 5-6 pills every half hour for days at a time. All that stange behavior would be reinforced by the kh friends where someone was always cured with a special pill.

  One of the first words our kids learned was "Nature Sunshine."
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  Gregor

  A fellow elder once took me aside to tell me he had heard that I was having a hemorrhoid problem. He told me to try using a peeled clove of garlic as a suppository. He was very serious and almost guaranteed it would cure me. I had almost forgot about our conversation the following week when he asked me if I had tried it. Not exactly, I told him, I didn't have any garlic so I used a bunch of green onions instead. The only problem was that it made it difficult to pull up my underwear. His jaw dropped, he had zero sense of humor and thought I was serious.
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  NewYork44M

  That was funny. I am sure the elder stopped by the A&P on the way home from the meeting and bought a bunch of gree onions and tried it himself.
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  nomoreguilt

  OMG!!!! MY PET PEAVE!!! OH, GEE brother, it's just like the TRUTH!!! It's everything that jehovah intended for us to do. It's so natural, just listen to me and take this, do that, flush your anything and everything with it and OMG you'll never need to see a real DR again.

  A dear dub used to be friend of mine was and still is invovled with this CRAP. VOODOO Witchcraft. A number of years ago, she developed a sore throat. She took some over the counter stuff like most of us will. Didn't help. No problem. So, she went to her herbalist/voodoo whodoo and got this tiny piece of GOLD. She stuck it to the front of her throat and wore it there for a week or more. Guess what? Besied looking stupid as hell, it DIDN"T WORK! Nope! She had to eventually go to a real DR and turned out because she hadn't gotten anti-biotic treatment, she severely damaged her vocal chords.

  OK, same ex-friend dub sister. She developes a chest cold. Congestion, coughing etc. No problem. I myself, with my history of pneumonia, would have been at my DR in a flash. What does she do? YUP! back to the herbalist yada yada. Guess what happens next? She ends up in the hospital, can't breathe good. It turns out that she developed pneumonia. No problem, HOWEVER!!!!! The infection had spread OUTSIDE of her lungs and they had to do sugery on her to remove this mass of JELLIED INFECTION out of her chest cavity. The DR.s were very guarded in her prognosis, meaning , she wasn't supposed to have survived. She did, still goes to the witch doctors. Some people never learn!!!!!
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  PEC

  I wouldn't be here today if it weren't for those quacks. I was searching the web for information on quack medicine when I found JWD.

  Philip