IN THE NEWS: Father featured in Chicago Tribune series files suit against practitioners of autism alternative therapy

The Chicago Tribune reports that James Coman, a father highlighted in a recent series of columns on alternative autism treatments has filed suit in the Circuit Court of Cook County, Illinois requesting a jury trial and requesting damages against two physicians,their medical practices and an analysis lab .

The suit alleges that the physicians and their medical corporations are culpable of medical negligence, lack of informed consent, intentional misrepresentation, negligent misrepresentation,and battery.

The suit also alleges that the laboratory report used as a basis for application of chelation and other proposed alternative treatments was based on an improper method of testing to obtain the report results and alleges that the laboratory is culpable for negligence, intentional misrepresentation,and civil conspiracy with the physicians and health care corporations named in the suit.

For further reading
Doctors sued over ‘dangerous’ autism treatment
By Patricia Callahan, Tribune reporter
Chicago Tribune
5:19 p.m. CST, March 4, 2010

ScienceBlogs/Respectful Insolence on the suit
Link to a copy of the filed lawsuit
March 5, 2010

Heavy Metals Suit: Are Experimental Autism Docs Taking Legal Risks?
David Whelan
The Science Business: A health care blog
March 5, 2010 - 12:04 pm

"Dubious Medicine"
Chicago Tribune series on unproven treatments for autism
Trine Tsouderos and Patricia Callahan, Chicago Tribune

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