State medical regulators have warned a Dubuque "alternative health care consultant" that she has been illegally practicing medicine without a license.
The Iowa Board of Medicine, which licenses physicians, sent a letter this month warning Erin Gotz that she is breaking state law. "The information reviewed by the board indicates that you use tuning forks and specialized crystals to diagnose health conditions and prescribe a high-dose vitamin regimen to your clients," regulators wrote to Gotz.
"The board has serious concerns that the use of such high-dose vitamins may be toxic and could cause serious harm to your clients."
The letter says that if Gotz fails to heed the cease-and-desist order, the state could seek a court injunction against her or refer the case to the Dubuque county attorney for possible prosecution.
Gotz, who did not respond to a request for comment, has said alternative medical techniques, including sound therapy and Chinese medicine, helped her overcome anxiety and panic attacks as a teenager.
The experience led her to learn such techniques, she told the Dubuque Telegraph-Herald in 2009. "People are searching for different answers to their problems," Gotz told the newspaper.
"The medical industry definitely has a place in our society, but a pill doesn't always solve everything."
The article said Gotz's remedies included "sound and color therapy, essential oils, herbs, and gemstones, reflexology, acupressure, aromatherapy, and more. She has had the most success with sound therapy, which is said to heal the physical, mental, emotional and etheric aspects of a person and lead to a state of harmony through the use of sound frequencies."
Mark Bowden, the medical board's executive director, said last week that someone complained to regulators about Gotz's practices. The board doesn't go looking for such cases, he said, but it does occasionally warn people to stop practicing medicine without a license. Anyone who fails to heed such a warning could face criminal prosecution.
LAURA KNIGHT-JADCZYK AND JOE QUINN
Since the 9/11 attacks, no book has provided a satisfactory answer as to WHY the attacks occurred and who was ultimately responsible for carrying them out - until now.
I hope people are beginning to pick up a pattern here.
Many practicing doctors are good people and would not stoop to these sort of operations against the alternative community.
But we have clearly seen that the medical elite has come under the influence of the psychiatric elite, and that the psychiatric elite is basically psychopathic.
The truth about mental health is that it is senior to physical health. And for that matter, spiritual health is senior to mental health. Doctors know this, and so do the psychs. And they want to suppress this knowledge big time. They are trying to put down anyone who strays from the "body is all there is" mentality. So until we expose and overturn their jackboot tactics we will hear stories like this. People not allowed to sell raw milk, and all sorts of similar restrictions.
I postulate (pray) that this is a sign of the demise of all this suppression. That they are getting so desperate that their actions will out them and thus terminate their power. But to be on the safe side, we should erect barriers to suppression that will be more difficult to get around than what we have now. Even if we defeat suppression from humans on earth, there is always the possibility that it could creep in from other places. We must remain vigilant.