Texas doctor's cancer cure: inject blood in a cow udder, have a glass of the milk

Warning: This post contains references to cows, blood and quite possibly some bull.
Roby Mitchell, M.D. is not your typical doctor. Technically, in fact, he hasn’t been licensed to practice medicine in Texas since 2005.
Mitchell — known by the moniker Dr. Fitt on his website — must have just shrugged his shoulders, since the Amarillo doctor kept on working.
And the work has recently been Stephen King strange.
In February 2011, when the Texas Medical Board found out he was still in the med business, they entered a cease and desist order against him, prohibiting him from practicing.
No doubt hurt by the spitefulness of the board’s decision, Dr. Fitt did what any unlicensed medical professional would do: He kept on going.
By the end of April 2011, Dr. Fitt had evaluated a patient with skin cancer that had spread to other parts of his body.
Dr. Fitt held himself out to be a cancer doctor, board documents say. He first prescribed a cream to rub on the patient’s shoulder where had had received surgery for his melanoma. We hope it was Burt’s Bees, because we hear that really helps.
Then Dr. Fitt consulted his extensive medical knowledge to prescribe colostrum bovine treatment.

The treatment involved drawing blood from the patient, injecting the blood into a pregnant cow’s udder and then drinking milk from the cow.
Dr. Fitt said that cool but peculiar milkshake would contain anti-bodies to fight the cancer, according to
the board. Alas, the patient passed away before he had a chance to drink the milk.
(As of last year, claims associated with colostrum, a supplement, haven’t been substantiated by the FDA, according to livestrong.com)
Dr. Fitt charged $5,000 for the treatment.
The farmer who owned the cow refunded $2,500 to the patient’s widow. Dr. Fitt wouldn’t refund his half, the board said.
A woman who answered the phone for Dr. Fitt said to check out his Facebook page for a response to the board’s actions, but we couldn’t find it. (If you find it, let us know.)
His website has this to say, in part, about his career: “Dr. Mitchell voluntarily surrendered his Texas Medical license in 2005 after realizing the corruptness of an industry that has no concern for the health of Americans.”
To be fair, there is a lot of wiggle room between “voluntarily surrendered” and “revoked.”
Dr. Fitt says he has since trained doctors, nurses, pharmacists and others in this country, Canada, Australia, the United Kingdom and elsewhere “in strategies that result in curing rather than managing symptoms.”
At any rate, Dr. Fitt is once again being told not to practice medicine. Best of luck with that, medical board.

Read more here: http://blogs.star-telegram.com/investigations/2012/06/texas-doctors-cancer-cure-inject-blood-in-a-cow-udder-have-a-glass-of-the-milk-.html#storylink=cpy