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Penny Setterfield letter to the editor in today's Ottawa Citizen: Re: Ottawa-area MS patient battles to have OHIP cover 'liberation therapy,' Feb. 11. I am writing in connection to the hearings underway in Ottawa of Judy Butcher versus OHIP. I too have had this therapy (by Dr. Siskin in Albany, New ...

It is difficult to say who the appeal board would consider an expert. Likely only a medical doctor. Dr. Hugh Langley is not an expert in MS nor is he an IR, he simply read the research in the area and selected what he wanted to make his points. Whomever Judith would have presented as an expert would...

Just heard that there will be a letter to the editor published in the Citizen tomorrow or Thursday about the MS/CCSVI Debate .
This is in response to the Judy Butcher article in the Saturday paper.
 If Judith Butcher appeal is denied she may have other routes to take. I was a witness at this appeal....

I was a witness for Judith Butcher at this hearing. It was mentioned that CCSVI is a treatment and not a drug. Double blind studies were developed for drugs not treatments. It was mentioned, and a number of examples were given, that other treatments did not have to go through double blinded studies....