Unlike most Gulf Coast doctors, Dr. Rodney Soto is testing, diagnosing and treating patients for toxic exposure. He has reported that he is seeing more and more patients with toxins in excess of the 95 percentile and what will be long-term health suffering associated with having been poisoned.
Dr. Soto says he is more concerned about long-term cancers from the oil and dispersants and that "it depends strictly on how the body can get rid of it."
Toxic exposure deniers vs do-no-harmers
In one of the TV reports on the video below, the news reporter says they haven't been hearing much about illnesses associated with the Gulf oil "spill." Mainstream news has conducted the greatest cover-up in American history so that the American public is kept unaware of the health effects of the Gulf oil and dispersants.
The Hippocratic Oath includes the promise "to abstain from doing harm." It is harmful to not test patients when they present with signs of toxic exposure because diagnoses and treatments are subsequently not accurate.
How can it be known what the illness is, and know it is not associated to poisons if there is no testing? If the doctor is not sure what the illness is, how can his or her treatment be effective?
No accurate diagnoses and treatments are mistreatment. According to Gulf Coast residents reporting to Gulf Coast Barefoot Doctors, it is not easy to find a doctor who will run the appropriate tests - even when patients can afford the tests. It is also widely reported that medical staff continue to be toxic exposure deniers.
The VOC blood tests are not covered by health insurance and cost over $200.00.
Gulf hero
Dr. Soto is providing blood tests for his patients that any primary care doctor could be doing that.
A reporter parroted what government is telling people about safety of oil and dispersants and asked Soto if that is true.
Without hesitation he said, "I don't think so."
Dr. Soto explained that there is no way the chemicals could be gone, dissolved.
"They evaporate in the atmosphere, mixes with other gas and falls in the rain," he said.
"They remain in the air-tube and that's why we cannot say, "We're OK now.'"
In WJHG interview with Soto on November 9, 2010, What Are The Long Term Health Effects of the BP Oil Spill?, at one point asked, "Could we all be at risk?"
[W]hen you get a huge load of toxins and chemicals, then the system gets overwhelmed. The liver can’t take care of it. It stays in the tissues effecting their functions - brain functions, immune system, hormonal function. It effects the aging system.
“I'm not just talking about short term effects of irritation in the airways, headaches, or rashes people have been experiencing from symptoms that we get calls here in the office for.
“But I’m more concerned about the long term health effects. Nobody's talking about it. Nobody’s even thinking of that 5,10,15, 20 years from now, that we’re going to see – you know - cancer.”
Dr. Soto was born in Ecuador and migrated to the United States in 1989 after completing his Medical School. In the US, Dr. Soto trained in internal medicine at the Catholic Medical Center of Brooklyn and Queens in New York City, and then performed three years residency training in neurology at the Medical University of South Carolina.
Dr. Soto then completed two additional years of fellowship training in vascular and critical care neurology at the Comprehensive Stroke Center at UAB. He is board certified in General Neurology and Vascular Neurology.
He specializes in the treatment and prevention of cerebrovascular disorders and is very knowledgeable about neurodegenerative diseases of the nervous system. He has served as the medical Director of the UAB stroke center in Birmingham, AL and the Regional Stroke Center at Sacred Heart Hospital in Pensacola, FL.
According to the Younger You Institute, Dr. Soto also completed all requirements for Defeat Autism Now (DAN) certification -- a project of the Autism Research Institute providing biomedically-based research, appropriate testing and safe and effective interventions for autism.
He is the president and the founder of The Younger You Institute, P.A. incorporated in Florida in May 2007.
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Florida Oil Spill
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Comments
Thank You Doctor for speaking out and Channel 7 for at least addressing the issues. Thanks to Deborah for posting this.
Trisha
Great story, please continue to follow this story.
Thanks Debra for this article... it takes the public to show us what is really going on... Thank you Dr. Soto for being brave enough to speak the truth. This is all obvious... what he says about the chemistry used in the recent gulf spill disaster is right on... Chemistry doesn't just go away... ask any 'Nam veteran about agent orange...They're still having symptoms 30 -35 years later.... The residents of the gulf states have an almost predictable future and it doesn't look to good. We had friends in east Florida contact us and asked what we thought... we suggested they leave... in a few days they were on their way to Arizona.
The interesting part will be who pays for the suffering yet to be seen? Monsanto is still not paying for the tons of agent orange sprayed in Vietnam that not only is still affecting the Vietnamese people but also our veterans.
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