Dr. Atkins Death

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Registered: 01-18-2007
Dr. Atkins Death
Sun, 10-28-2007 - 9:35am

Here is a copy of his death certificate from The Smoking Gun

http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/bloombergatkins1.html

There was a lot of conspiracy theories at the time of his death because a doctor illegally got hold of Dr. Atkins medical records. A clerk at the facility at where Dr. Atkins had been treated released his medical information without proper consent. It showed that the doctor had a history of heart disease, heart attacks and an MI. The immediate cause of death was blunt force trauma to the head. Many still theorize that he had a heart attack and hit his head.

Case in point, my mother died from complications of diabetes. She had ketoacidosis where all of her major organs failed starting with her kidneys and ending with her heart. The immediate cause of death was heart failure. The secondary cause of death was diabetes. The data reported to the State and used to compile death rates was heart failure

In public health we are taught to always question data from death certificates because the immediate cause is what is alway used to report data when the true cause may have been some underlying disease like diabetes. This is one reason why we do not have reliable data about the number of deaths from diabetes and the vast majority are listed as heart failure with secondary cause as diabetes, but no one pays any attention to the secondary cause or what is really going on with the pt.

I have no real opinion about Dr. Atkins.

Marcella, MPH

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