Collection search - Part 2, Quackery

CANADIAN ASSOCIATION OF BROADCASTERS / ASSOCIATION CANADIENNE DES RADIODIFFUSEURS

1980-0266

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1 of 1

1973-11-28

CFCF TV

director, Vaughn Gentle; producer, Bert Cannings; host, Bill Haughland; editing, Geoff Greer; photography, Louis de Guise; reporter, Bob Benedetti

Television public affairs program. An examination of quackery in the Province of Quebec with respect to faith healing and other medical quackery involved in the relief of a physical ailment. An exposé of the methods of the quack faith healer, it also shows the scepticism of the medical expert and looks at the responsibility of the medical profession in the fight against medical quackery. Also, it underlines the dangers of consulting a quack. Sequences on the faith-healing practice of Pasteur Claude Gagnon. Interview with Pasteur Gagnon, Dr. Joseph Shugar, Orthapaedic surgeon at the Jewish General Hospital and with Dr. Augustin Roy, Registrar of the Quebec College of Physicians and Surgeons. Interviews with René Boily, a bone setter, with Dr. Murray Kats, of the Point St. Charles Community Clinic, and with Dale Alexander, a nutritionist. <29mn>

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