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Robert S. Mendelsohn was an American pediatrician, anti-vaccinationist and critic of medical paternalism. He denounced unnecessary and radical surgical procedures and dangerous medications, reminding his readers of public health failures such as the 1976 swine flu outbreak and the damage caused to daughters of women who took the drug Diethylstilbestrol during pregnancy. He portrayed doctors as powerful priests of a primitive religion, with dishonesty as its central ethic. His mild manner appealed to the public, while his message infuriated his medical colleagues.Mendelsohn wrote a syndicated newspaper column called The People's Doctor, and also produced a newsletter with the same name He published five books, including Confessions of a Medical Heretic, Mal Practice: How Doctors Manipulate Women, and How to Raise a Healthy Child…In Spite of Your Doctor. He appeared on over 500 television and radio talk shows. Wikipedia  

✵ 13. July 1926 – 5. April 1988
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