Dr. Megan Shields and her colleague, Dr. Gene Denk, know more about the inner criminal activity of senior Scientology management than just about anyone.

Quite a while ago, Dr. Denk supervised the Purification program on Carrie Alkins. During the Purif, Carrie, a juvenile diabetic, developed a detached retina and, although she had several eye surgeries, wound up legally blind. She has remained so ever since.

Carrie wrote up a bunch of knowledge reports at the time in an effort to not only get some sort of apology and restitution from Shaw Health Center, but also to ensure that other diabetics were not given massive dosages of niacin, which could bring on retinal bleeding and possibly a detached retina which could result in blindness.

Regular doctors routinely warn diabetics against taking massive dosages of niacin for this reason.

Dr. Denk and Dr. Shields circled the wagons, of course, and let Carrie and her husband know that if she pushed the point she might get kicked out of the Church. Scientology doctors tend to cover for each other and also for the Church. They fail to report child abuse, sexual harassment, spousal abuse, and any sort of medical negligence that has happened ROUTINELY over the years within the Sea Org.

When I was on staff at ASHO and at AO I used to do all the staff FESing (review of counseling folders). This is what I observed. A lot of the staff members would get sick, go to the Shaw Health Center and get sub-optimum care there. Serious illnesses would often be overlooked resulting in extremely serious medical and sometimes fatal consequences. Many times I saw staff members who went to Shaw Health Center and the doctors prescribed routine antibiotics rather than ordering the medical exams that would be normally ordered by any competent physician. As a result of that, many times the staff members ended up going to the hospital in late stages of cancer when the cancer was too advanced to be operable. Because the Sea Org doesn't pay for health insurance for its staff members it becomes a very serious problem when they get a disease.

Also, seriously depressed or mentally ill people NEVER get referred by the doctors at Shaw Health Center for any type of treatment. For instance, there was a NOTS auditor in the early 1980s who was a staff member at AOLA who was 5'6" tall and weighed less than 90 lbs. She was completely anorexic. She was very seriously ill. Shaw Health Center attempted to handle her with intravenous vitamins. They didn't inform her family or take the measures that were really needed to save her life. Her fellow staff members, myself included, never did find out what happened to her. She just disappeared. Another Sea Org auditor, Claire something, had had an auto accident and had severe back pain. Shaw Health Center tried to help her with peripheral types of treatments. AOLA and Shaw Health Center ignored the agony this woman was in. Claire committed suicide by walking into the Pacific Ocean in Santa Monica.

Dr. Denk and Dr. Shields and the Sea Org are ripping off the tax payers by sending all their staff to Olive View County Hospital so that they can get free treatment on Medi-Cal. The Church brags about its wealth but does not care enough about its staff to feed or house it properly and also refuses to pay for medical care for its staff on many occasions. Dental care is also out of the question for many staff members. Many of them lose their teeth because the Church refuses to pay for dental care. Yet, other Sea Org members are willing to stigmatize these staff members as being 'down stat' because they look like monsters with missing teeth. These staff are humiliated and kept literally in the basement doing menial work unless they somehow have the resources to pay for their own dental care.

Dr. Shields & Dr. Denk are accomplices to many of the Church human rights abuses and medical negligence. They know that if they follow the law, the way they should be doing, they will get into trouble with the Church and probably be excommunicated. This puts them in a daily dilemma. For example, in the early 1980s a staff member at a Scientology Sea Org nursery was found to be a child molester. At least 20 Sea Org staff members knew about this and also the doctors at Shaw Health Center were aware of it. These doctors DID NOT report this to the authorities because they were more concerned about avoiding a public relations flap for the Church than about the fact that there was a good chance that more innocent children would be molested.

Even though many Scientologists who sell Health Insurance have approached Scientology management with reasonable rates on group health insurance, management has never agreed to this.

Sexual harassment is an everyday occurrence in the Sea Org. Although this is almost never voiced, it is a hidden scandal. Of course, as in any human group, there are kind people and mean people. But the Sea Org has developed a kind of prison mentality. A lot of Sea Org members are young teenagers or young adults. Often by the age of 23 or 24 they have been married 3 or 4 times. Because of the Sea Org prohibition on pregnancy, many marriages are unhappy and the partners feel unfulfilled. Older Sea Org members often marry young recruits.

Some very vicious Sea Org members will purposely separate married couples. They station one in one country and the other in another country where they are not able to see each other for literally YEARS.

Also, they don't have money to call long distance. Since they are not allowed to go onto the Internet (for obvious reasons) they can't communicate by e-mail either.

There is no retirement program for older Sea Org members. When they get old and incapacitated they don't have a place to go. Also, they often don't have family to take care of them. They are made to feel like 'downstats' and often leave the Sea Org and go on the public dole very quietly, often moving back to where they grew up.

A friend of mine went to Shaw Health Center last year and reported to me that it looked pretty empty. That may be why Dr. Shields is now working at Glendale Memorial. Any thoughts on this?

But all of the above should be carefully qualified. Dr. Denk and Dr.

Shields are well aware of how far Scientology senior management will go. They know that it would be easy for management to get Sea Org members to testify against them for legitimate malpractice, notwithstanding the fact that the malpractice was incited by management itself. They are, themselves, entrapped. If they do not continue to follow the instructions of senior management they risk losing their medical licenses and possibly being criminally prosecuted, at the instigation of management. In exchange for their loyalty, Shaw Health Center is protected by management from patients who might, were it not for Scientology rules and regulations, sue them or cause criminal negligence charges to be made.

Any patient who dares to report Shaw Health Center to internal Scientology ethics is routinely reprimanded for trying to attack 'upstats'. The one who is the victim, in this type of situation, is the one who is blamed. The usual Scientology 'blame the victim' routine so that the Church can avoid taking any responsibility.

Whether Dr. Denk and Dr. Shields gradually got into this position or whether they are diehard Scientologists who actually believe that suicide is preferable to even a short course of anti-depressants is a matter of speculation.

It could even be that Dr. Denk, by not insisting that L. Ron Hubbard be hospitalized and have extensive medical diagnosis and treatment, may have robbed his own hero of 5, 10 or maybe even more years of life.

From: lawriew@aol.com (LawrieW)
Date: 04 Dec 2002 04:02:07 GMT
Subject: Re: Dr. Megan Shields - Who Comes First the Patient or the Church?
Message-ID: <20021203230207.28129.00000145@mb-cf.aol.com>

Interesting post. I often though about the way Doctors Denk and Shields were kind of hung between medical science (they must have picked up something at medical school) and the clap-trap voodoo they believed in through Scientology.

I once consulted Dr. Denk on a medical condition and he put me on zinc and bee pollen. I went to a regular doctor later and after given me full blood tests and a regular prescription, he was amazed when I told him what Dr. Denk had prescribed. He actually asked for his phone number, he was so baffled at his prescribed treatment.

From: Warrior <warrior@xenu.ca>
Subject: Re: "No psychs" program at Glendale Memorial Hospital
Date: 4 Dec 2002 00:02:49 -0800
Message-ID: <askcr901qe2@drn.newsguy.com>

Hi Energy Traveler,

Thanks for your most interesting post. I knew *all* the doctors at the Shaw Health Center, but especially Gene Denk, Megan Shields, Jim Michel, and Steven Price. As a patient I have seen Denk, Shields and Michel. During my Scientology years in LA (1975-1988) Shaw Health Center was practically like an extension of ASHO's Medical Liaison Office. By this I mean that it was routine for staff to be sent there, *if* they were fortunate enough to be allowed to see a doctor. My now deceased wife, Victoria, saw them as well. And so did our son. Back then, Michael Spearman was the Medical Liaison Officer for ASHO Day for a number of years. He also held the post of Purification Rundown I/C ASHO Day. These days he is a chiropractor.

I knew Carrie Alkins. She tried to "reg" my wife, Victoria. Like Carrie, my wife was a juvenile diabetic. And, like Carrie, Victoria had to have laser surgery because of diabetic retinopathy. For those of you who don't know what retinopathy is, it's when the blood vessels in the eye *burst*. The vessels then hemorrhage (bleeds) internally.

Normal procedure is to cauterize (burn by searing) the blood vessels to stop the internal bleeding. Denk supervised my wife's Purification Rundown. The exercise regimen called for in the Purification HCOBs can be very dangerous to a diabetic already suffering from hypertension.

And, coupled with the taking of extremely high and dangerous doses of niacin, it can be a ticket to disaster for a person who already has high blood pressure as a complication of diabetes.

Carrie told my wife that she needed to get on NOTs because NOTs would "handle" her diabetes. I know that Scientology and Dianetics never cured Carrie's diabetes. Anyway, after my wife passed away, I gave Victoria's blood glucose level tester to Carrie so she could monitor and manage her blood sugar levels better. I wish her well, and I am sorry to hear that she's still living in the Scientology world with its fraudulent claims of the "workability" of the "tech".

About child sexual abuse, I know about a Sea Org member who sexually abused at least 4 different children. My oldest son, when he was about 6-7 years old, was one of his victims. Years later I learned about it.

I knew the other three victims and their parents too, as their children were all being "cared for" by the same sexual pervert nanny at the Cadet Org back in the days when it was on Fountain Avenue.

For many years, Toby Cantine was FESer for ASHO Day. Did you know her?

There's much more I'd like to talk with you about. Perhaps you could email me.

Again, thanks for your information. I *completely* grok what you say.

You speak truth.

Warrior - Sunshine disinfects http://warrior.xenu.ca

In article <4892526.0212031520.4b6064ab@posting.google.com>, energytraveler@hotmail.com says...

>
>Dr. Megan Shields and her colleague, Dr. Gene Denk, know more about
>the inner criminal activity of senior Scientology management than just
>about anyone.
>
>Quite a while ago, Dr. Denk supervised the Purification program on
>Carrie Alkins. During the Purif, Carrie, a juvenile diabetic,
>developed a detached retina and, although she had several eye
>surgeries, wound up legally blind. She has remained so ever since.
>
>Carrie wrote up a bunch of knowledge reports at the time in an effort
>to not only get some sort of apology and restitution from Shaw Health
>Center, but also to ensure that other diabetics were not given massive
>dosages of niacin, which could bring on retinal bleeding and possibly
>a detached retina which could result in blindness.
>
>Regular doctors routinely warn diabetics against taking massive
>dosages of niacin for this reason.
>
>Dr. Denk and Dr. Shields circled the wagons, of course, and let Carrie
>and her husband know that if she pushed the point she might get kicked
>out of the Church. Scientology doctors tend to cover for each other
>and also for the Church. They fail to report child abuse, sexual
>harassment, spousal abuse, and any sort of medical negligence that has
>happened ROUTINELY over the years within the Sea Org.
>
>When I was on staff at ASHO and at AO I used to do all the staff
>FESing (review of counseling folders). This is what I observed. A
>lot of the staff members would get sick, go to the Shaw Health Center
>and get sub-optimum care there. Serious illnesses would often be
>overlooked resulting in extremely serious medical and sometimes fatal
>consequences. Many times I saw staff members who went to Shaw Health
>Center and the doctors prescribed routine antibiotics rather than
>ordering the medical exams that would be normally ordered by any
>competent physician. As a result of that, many times the staff
>members ended up going to the hospital in late stages of cancer when
>the cancer was too advanced to be operable. Because the Sea Org
>doesn't pay for health insurance for its staff members it becomes a
>very serious problem when they get a disease.
>
>Also, seriously depressed or mentally ill people NEVER get referred by
>the doctors at Shaw Health Center for any type of treatment. For
>instance, there was a NOTS auditor in the early 1980s who was a staff
>member at AOLA who was 5'6" tall and weighed less than 90 lbs. She
>was completely anorexic. She was very seriously ill. Shaw Health
>Center attempted to handle her with intravenous vitamins. They didn't
>inform her family or take the measures that were really needed to save
>her life. Her fellow staff members, myself included, never did find
>out what happened to her. She just disappeared. Another Sea Org
>auditor, Claire something, had had an auto accident and had severe
>back pain. Shaw Health Center tried to help her with peripheral types
>of treatments. AOLA and Shaw Health Center ignored the agony this
>woman was in. Claire committed suicide by walking into the Pacific
>Ocean in Santa Monica.
>
>Dr. Denk and Dr. Shields and the Sea Org are ripping off the tax
>payers by sending all their staff to Olive View County Hospital so
>that they can get free treatment on Medi-Cal. The Church brags about
>its wealth but does not care enough about its staff to feed or house
>it properly and also refuses to pay for medical care for its staff on
>many occasions. Dental care is also out of the question for many
>staff members. Many of them lose their teeth because the Church
>refuses to pay for dental care. Yet, other Sea Org members are
>willing to stigmatize these staff members as being 'down stat' because
>they look like monsters with missing teeth. These staff are
>humiliated and kept literally in the basement doing menial work unless
>they somehow have the resources to pay for their own dental care.
>
>Dr. Shields & Dr. Denk are accomplices to many of the Church human
>rights abuses and medical negligence. They know that if they follow
>the law, the way they should be doing, they will get into trouble with
>the Church and probably be excommunicated. This puts them in a daily
>dilemma. For example, in the early 1980s a staff member at a
>Scientology Sea Org nursery was found to be a child molester. At
>least 20 Sea Org staff members knew about this and also the doctors at
>Shaw Health Center were aware of it. These doctors DID NOT report
>this to the authorities because they were more concerned about
>avoiding a public relations flap for the Church than about the fact
>that there was a good chance that more innocent children would be
>molested.
>
>Even though many Scientologists who sell Health Insurance have
>approached Scientology management with reasonable rates on group
>health insurance, management has never agreed to this.
>
>Sexual harassment is an everyday occurrence in the Sea Org. Although
>this is almost never voiced, it is a hidden scandal. Of course, as in
>any human group, there are kind people and mean people. But the Sea
>Org has developed a kind of prison mentality. A lot of Sea Org
>members are young teenagers or young adults. Often by the age of 23
>or 24 they have been married 3 or 4 times. Because of the Sea Org
>prohibition on pregnancy, many marriages are unhappy and the partners
>feel unfulfilled. Older Sea Org members often marry young recruits.
>
>Some very vicious Sea Org members will purposely separate married
>couples. They station one in one country and the other in another
>country where they are not able to see each other for literally YEARS.
> Also, they don't have money to call long distance. Since they are
>not allowed to go onto the Internet (for obvious reasons) they can't
>communicate by e-mail either.
>
>There is no retirement program for older Sea Org members. When they
>get old and incapacitated they don't have a place to go. Also, they
>often don't have family to take care of them. They are made to feel
>like 'downstats' and often leave the Sea Org and go on the public dole
>very quietly, often moving back to where they grew up.
>
>A friend of mine went to Shaw Health Center last year and reported to
>me that it looked pretty empty. That may be why Dr. Shields is now
>working at Glendale Memorial. Any thoughts on this?
>
>But all of the above should be carefully qualified. Dr. Denk and Dr.
>Shields are well aware of how far Scientology senior management will
>go. They know that it would be easy for management to get Sea Org
>members to testify against them for legitimate malpractice,
>notwithstanding the fact that the malpractice was incited by
>management itself. They are, themselves, entrapped. If they do not
>continue to follow the instructions of senior management they risk
>losing their medical licenses and possibly being criminally
>prosecuted, at the instigation of management. In exchange for their
>loyalty, Shaw Health Center is protected by management from patients
>who might, were it not for Scientology rules and regulations, sue them
>or cause criminal negligence charges to be made.
>
>Any patient who dares to report Shaw Health Center to internal
>Scientology ethics is routinely reprimanded for trying to attack
>'upstats'. The one who is the victim, in this type of situation, is
>the one who is blamed. The usual Scientology 'blame the victim'
>routine so that the Church can avoid taking any responsibility.
>
>Whether Dr. Denk and Dr. Shields gradually got into this position or
>whether they are diehard Scientologists who actually believe that
>suicide is preferable to even a short course of anti-depressants is a
>matter of speculation.
>
>It could even be that Dr. Denk, by not insisting that L. Ron Hubbard
>be hospitalized and have extensive medical diagnosis and treatment,
>may have robbed his own hero of 5, 10 or maybe even more years of
>life.

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