My
name is C.W. I am Assistant Director of Therapy
Services at Athens-Limestone Hospital, Athens,
Alabama. I have worked for this hospital for
24 years. Therapy Services consist of the
following departments: Respiratory Care, Sleep
Center, Physical Therapy, Sports Med, Cardiovascular
Lab, and Home Medical Equipment. I am a Certified
Respiratory Therapist and a Registered Polysomnographic
Technologist. I work closely with the active
staff of the hospital in both the administrative
and technical arena. I say all this to inform
you of my medical background, but my most
important and treasured role of my life is
the proud mother of a 12-year-old daughter.
This
letter is written to attest the positive effects
of Dr. Banker’s treatment regimen and professional
ethics. A brief synopsis should help explain
my attestation. After seeing one ophthalmologist
and two Retina specialists, I was diagnosed
with Retinoschisis. Emergency laser surgery
was performed to hopefully prevent further
schisis. Due to conflicting opinions between
the Retina specialists, I sought a third opinion.
I finally was convinced, that I had Retinoschisis
and I was told there was nothing more to do
and currently no cure. I researched this diagnosis
through conversations with well-known eye
clinics in the western and northern regions
of the United States and all recommended I
visit the "Fighting Blindness" website.
This in conjunction with my failing eyesight,
loss of visual field, and a constant light
show of floaters, flashes, and swirling lights
crushed my spirit of hope! I could not accept
that absolutely nothing could be done to at
least improve the visual field that had not
been affected, so I continued to research
for help. My physician told me he had seen
Dr. Banker at a conference and that she was
doing some pretty amazing things with eyes.
I got on her website and immediately called
her.
Dr.
Banker told me of her medical background and
her in-depth research with natural medicine
and electro physiology for the eyes. I spoke
with my medical doctor who also integrated
natural medicine with his practice and I decided
I had nothing to lose for conventional medicine
was a dead end at this point. Dr. Banker informed
me that she had never treated Retinoschisis
but felt she could possibly help stop any
more vision loss and hopefully improve the
vision left with a reduction in the incredible
light show that hindered my ability to visually
focus and mentally concentrate.
Finances
were an issue because insurance was not going
to cover this treatment but Dr. Banker worked
with me allowing me to take charge of my condition.
I could choose a course of action to possibly
improve my situation or sit back and accept
that nothing can be done and hope that the
worse case scenario does not happen.
The
overall environment and experience of Dr.
Banker’s clinic was extraordinarily pleasant.
Unlike the normal physician office visit,
she treated my eye condition considering the
wellness and sickness of my body as a whole.
The medical profession knows that the body
must work together for optimal health, unfortunately
there are so many specialty practices that
this is often overlooked and treatment is
only geared toward the affected organ and
not what may have caused the diseased area.
I
spent five days at Dr. Banker’s clinic and
actually saw amazing results the first day.
The treatment, compassion and adjustment of
therapy relative to my improvement or no improvement
subjectively and objectively, allowed for
significant reduction of flashes, swirling
lights, and floaters but the most impressive
result was regaining a significant portion
of lost visual field that I was told would
never happen by the conventional medical profession.
I
was fortunate enough to share the excitement
of a lady that is legally blind from uncontrolled
diabetes, having exhausted all conventional
medical therapy, including multiple eye surgeries,
see the outline of her face in a mirror as
she was walking out of the clinic.
Dr.
Banker not only helps to heal the physical
being but also gives hope back to those who
feel hopeless.
My
improvement is not only subjective. Upon returning
home, I performed another visual field test
documenting significant improvement.
So
is it natural medicine vs. conventional medicine?
The real question is why can’t natural medicine
and conventional medicine be used together
to bring as much wellness to human beings
as possible?
I
am extremely aware of the negative attitude
of conventional medicine physicians and organizations
toward the natural medicine practice, however
conventional medicine falls short in many
areas that natural medicine excels especially
in the education of total wellness. Do we
need conventional medicine? Absolutely! I
see miracles everyday performed in the medical
field, but I’m not so narrow-minded or professionally
threatened to think that natural medicine
is of no use. Each has proven its’ worth and
I have witnessed that it works well together.
Dr. Banker proved that! My family, friends,
and co-workers can testify to the overall
improvement of my health due to integrative
medicine, not one or the other. Conventional
medicine doesn’t want to believe it, but that
doesn’t make it any less true.
Everyone
should be allowed to make a well-informed
decision regarding his or her treatment. If
natural medicine practitioners are not allowed
to treat the free public, then an individuals’
chose has been denied and that denial was
forged by conventional medicine that kills
hundreds of thousands of people a year. I
am thankful that I had the opportunity to
choose Dr. Banker. We have forgotten that
all medicine started with trial and error,
extensive research and an open mind where
anything is possible. That principle still
holds true. How much better treatment can
one receive than from a trained MD that integrates
natural medicine? C.W.