McDonagh Medical Center- First View

Here is a sneak peek for our bloggers about our trip to K.C. thanks to Robert for doing this!

McDonagh Medical Center

We went to the McDonagh Medical Center on Monday. Dr. Rudolph was hesitant to do the interview. He was a hard interview to get. He was concerned we were out to put a negative spin on his clinic.

My goal for this series along with any story is to be honest. I think our viewers will see throughout the series everything must be questioned.

I can assure our viewers I asked tough questions and we did cover the criticisms of chelation...but we also discussed the good results Dr. Rudolph says he is seeing.

When we arrived in K.C., Dr. Rudolph gave a tour of his clinic. He showed us the many rooms and machines of alternative treatments. Then we did the interview.

Dr. Rudolph made it very clear to us he is not an autism expert nor are people with autism the majority of his patients. In fact, he has few. However, his clinic has a vast amount of published work. He claims, his clinic probably has the most published work in the world concerning the work they do.

I know we will get reaction from interviewing and showing alternative forms of treatment. However, we can't be above the news. People are using this form of medicine and it should be covered. I know people are very concerned about this being included in our series, but we are covering it fairly and honestly.

I can't wait to share this story with you.

McDonagh Medical Center Pictures

Here are some pictures from our Kansas City shoot. Can't wait to show you the story.

Kansas City--Robert

At my first meeting with Ashley, she ran over the basic premise for the series and told me to start researching something called chelation therapy and how it relates to autism. I immediately got to work looking up different chelators and different methods of chelation as well as the cost of chelation and where chelation therapy was offered around Columbia.

Ashley informed me of a place called the McDonagh Medical Center, which had a case in Missouri Supreme Court a few years back. The case was about their use of chelation therapy, so right away I got to work reading the case to find out more. I didn't immediately find out whether McDonagh treated patients with autism or not, but Justin took over in talking to the clinic and I moved to other areas of chelation research.

Justin, however, found out that McDonagh does treat patients with autism and got an interview with Dr. Charles Rudolph, a partner at McDonagh and we went to Kansas City to interview him. When we got to the clinic, we walked into a waiting room where a woman behind the desk asked if we were with KOMU and said she'd take us back to Dr. Rudolph when we were ready, David, the photographer was getting some exterior shots.
















After he showed us around his office, we set up for the interview. Dr. Rudolph spoke about chelation and other alternative treatments. It was very beneficial to hear an expert talk about a chelation because so much of what I had read in my research was conflicting. After the interview, we shot some footage of his lab and then headed back to Columbia.

This series is coming together so incredibly, I can't wait for you to see it! I'm honored to be a part of it.

McDonagh Medical Center

Here are some pics from yesterday when we went to K.C. We will have first view video, blogs, and more pics in a few days--AR