Let’s start this post with one of the key tenets of the association of Naturopathic physicians and quoted directly from the website of the American Association of Naturopathic Physicians (the italics are mine):
“Use High Force, Invasive Modalities: Surgery, Radiation, Chemotherapy. When life, limb, or function must be preserved, NDs refer patients to MDs who are expertly trained in these arenas. At the same time, NDs use complementary or supportive therapies to decrease side effects and increase the effectiveness of these invasive procedures.”
In other words, when patients need therapies such as antibiotics or vaccines, an “ND” cannot play medical doctor. I hate to sound blunt, but it is important to differentiate between physicians and physician wannabes. I take this stance because as an ethics keynote speaker and national ethics consultant, I have seen terrible abuses of the patient-physician relationship by individuals who cross the lines of trust and convince the vulnerable that they possess knowledge they do not have.
Juli Mazi Plays Doctor
If Juli Mazi, a 41-year-old ND had prescribed a patient with marital problems, a $5,000 mattress stuffed with crystals (and I have seen that), I might just shake my head and go on to another topic. However, that is not what she did. She ran, what old-fashioned sheister-gangsters once called “the Griff,” a scam designed to set people up.
Juli Mazi has pled guilty to falsifying COVID-19 vaccine cards by making customers believe that her treatment was the same as patients receiving the Moderna vaccine. In place of the vaccine, she gave people an immunization “pellet.” It is the same kind of pellet used in homeopathy and sold in natural foods stores across the country.
Homeopathy has long been debunked. Homeopathic remedies peddled by Naturopaths who should have known better, are wholly ineffective. Pharmacologically, they are benign as a sugar pill. Medically, they are useless.
Said Kevin Polite, Assistant DA on behalf of the DOJ “Mazi profited from peddling unapproved remedies, stirring up false fears, and generating fake proof of vaccinations.”
Worse, Mazi allegedly told her frightened patients that her harmless little pills would offer lifetime protection. She ran “the Griff” scam on more than 200 people. She was stopped only when a whistle-blower stepped forward.
The Worst Aspect
Perhaps the worst aspect of this scam was that Mazi peddled her little pills and fake immunization records to parents of more than 100 young children.
U.S. Attorney Stephanie Hinds said: “Mazi made profits by selling false immunization cards she knew would be used to mislead schools into believing students had been immunized from childhood illnesses as required by law.
She has been found guilty of wire fraud and “making false statements related to healthcare.” She will be sentenced on July 29, 2022.
Nothing about this scam surprises me. Mazi was under no supervision; oversite was non-existent, so she had (in her mind) a golden opportunity. She had a need for power or cash or both; after all, people called her doctor. It is heady stuff to someone who never saw the inside of a professional school. The old adage of “simply do no harm,” was rationalized by this woman. In her “heart of hearts,” I think she damn well knew this could boomerang back on her. Perhaps, she saw her patients as “marks,” and that she could deny any promises that the little pills could thwart a tough virus.
As I have mentioned this type of scam is not a new phenomenon. That it persists is testament to individuals and state loopholes that persist in evading common sense, sometimes to pander to political correctness and the broadest application of what should define common sense. If Juli Mazi should revel in any outcome of this case, is it that her actions did not directly result in grievous harm.
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