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This is not remotely amusing, it’s fucking infuriating. As a pain patient myself, I know the lengths people will go to in order to live something resembling a pain-free life. Pain can consume you, it becomes your whole damn landscape, internally and externally. For this…disgrace of a person to be allowed to carry on with this should be a crime, and he should not be allowed to practice in any way.
A man known as “Dr. Mike” in Edmond, Oklahoma is being questioned by the community about the ingredients of what he calls a “Jesus shot.”
The full name of “Dr. Mike” is John Michael Lonergan, and in 2005 he had his license to practice medicine revoked in Ohio after he was convicted of eight felony counts of tax evasion, mail fraud and health care fraud. After he was released from prison, “Dr. Mike” moved to Oklahoma, which granted him a license to practice medicine on a provisional, supervised basis.
According to News 9, “Dr. Mike” has been injecting local residents with something he calls the “Jesus shot,” which allegedly cures all pain for life. At his clinic, he has been charging people $300 per “miracle injection.” […]
Last month, one Oklahoma resident curious about “Dr. Mike” posted about him in a forum devoted to “outing people who falsely claim military service.”
“Nobody knows anything about this guy,” she wrote, “but he claims that he is a Former Special Forces Doctor and him and another Special Forces Doctor developed a serum for the military called Jesus Juice and it has been used in the military for years and it cures any ailment.” […]
The Oklahoma Medical Board terminated its supervisory agreement with “Dr. Mike” in March of last year, News 9 reports, but the terms of that agreement allowed him to continue to practice medicine, unsupervised, for another 12 months.
The rest of the Raw Story article is here.
A later report, from National Pain Report has this to add:
It can’t be substantiated but a Dr. Schrick told reporters that it is a mixture of Kenalog, Vitamin B12 and dexamethasone. Oh, and it had another less exciting name: inflammation protocol.
Ground-up mythical zombie solution! Perfect for all ills, temporary, imagined, and, especially, profitable!! Confirmed by quacks everywhere!!!
Probably does not contain nuts, but since we do no quality control, which parts of the zombie your are being injected with will vary.
It may as well be liquified zombie for all the fuckin’ good it would do. The nut is at the other end of the syringe.
I thought it was a duck, er, quack, at the other end…
And it occurs to me there is a finite supply of that mythical zombie, most of which is consumed as crackers. And “wine”. So it’s probably homeopathetic — confirming there is a quack at the end in question.
Somewhere, Andrew Wakefield is gnawing his lower lip in envy.
Kenalog and dexamethasone are both steroids. If he’s injecting people with steroids, that probably is making them feel freakin’ wonderful. Until their bones crumble or their adrenal glands pack up, of course.
Dr Sarah:
Yeah, I recognized them right away. I get corticosteroid shots every 3 months myself, for pain issues. That said, it’s probably why he claims it’s a lifetime cure (as if). A B12 injection will make anyone feel energetic and good for a bit, and yeah, the steroids will help for a while, too, but it’s no Jesus Juice.