I suggest that you append your real name(s) and credentials to the letter of complaint that you just posted on CareCure. You appear to be anonymously making very serious allegations of misconduct against a well-known clinician. While this may be customary in China, this is not acceptable behavior in the United States.
According to a link in your post, Dr. Xiao Chuan-Guo filed a defamation lawsuit against Sohu Information Technology Inc., the University Press of Peking Union Medical College, and Fang Shi-min in 2006. Are you one of the party that he filed the lawsuit against, i.e. Fang Shi-min (pen-name Fang Zhou-zhi)?
Or are you representing the \\"intellectuals in China\\" who are listed as signatories of a letter protesting the 2006 judgment by the Jianghan District Court of Wuhan City against the Fang Shi-min, ordering him to apologize publicly and compensate Dr. Xiao?
Who are the \\"New Threads Volunteers\\"? Whoever you are, please do not involve CareCure in the acrimonious personal exchanges between you and Dr. Xiao. If you are interested in discussing the merits of Dr. Xiao\\'s method and whether or not people with spinal cord injury can benefit from the treatment, you are of course very welcome to post and discuss the method although your credibility would be much enhanced if we knew who you are.
One of the rules of this site is that members must not attack another member of CareCure. The complaint letter that you have posted is a personal attack of Dr. Xiao. Since Dr. Xiao may very well be a member of CareCure, I suggest that you avoid further personal attacks of him. Since the letter of complaint has been published elsewhere, I will allow the letter to remain on this site but please confine futher discussion to the surgical method.
In another thread, I had summarized the published works of Dr. Xiao reporting his scientific and clinical findings. I had also described what I have seen at Dr. Xiao\\'s presentations at public symposia. Incidentally, the first presentation that I saw Dr. Xiao make was at the First International Spinal Cord Injury Treatment and Trials Symposium (ISCITT) held in December 2005 and sponsored by ChinaSCINet. I think that ChinaSCINet may have had some DVD\\'s of that symposium for sale and there may be some left.
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xyusergroup,
I am disappointed that you are not admitting to who you are. By hiding behind a name such as xyusergroup and claiming that you are a group of anonymous individuals, you are keeping your identity hidden. You are criticizing another man's integrity and claiming that he is lying about the success rate of his surgical procedure but yet you are unwilling to say who you are. I understand your fear of being sued but that fear is precisely why it is important that people identify themselves when criticizing others. In the United States, anonymous character assassination is not acceptable and seriously detracts from your credibility.
Regardless of whether you agree your letter is personally attacking Dr. Xiao, I ask you to please refrain from attacks of him in the future on this site. Many parts of your letter go well beyond the facts and represent your personal subjective interpretations concerning Dr. Xiao's integrity. You should understand that "investigations" by lawyers are not highly regarded as sources of unbiased assessments because lawyers are traditionally expected in the United States to take sides in cases, regardless of truth. If you refer to so-called "experts", please identify them by name and credentials. For example, you are saying that certain "experts" disagree with Dr. Xiao's scientific explanations of the mechanisms of bladder reinnervation. Who are they? What makes them experts? The failure to identify them and the source of their authority makes your claims less credible.
Clinical trials by unbiased third party doctors is what is required to ascertain whether this procedure is safe and effective. In a news report (Source), Dr. Kenneth Peters of the William Beaumont Hospitals was appropriately cautious in his assessment of the efficacy of the Xiao procedure in patients, calling the results "mixed". He pointed out that the treatment was "unsuccessful" in three spinal cord injury patients out of 12 operated patients. What you omitted in your description of that study is Dr. Peters statement that 7 of 9 patients with spina bifida showed "marked improvement", including one girl that was considered a "home run" and recovered "complete continence". Also, according to the news report, the study was a blinded one, i.e. comparing patients who had only untethering and those that had the peripheral nerve bridging. It would be very interesting to see the publication of these results in a peer-reviewed journal.
I have asked you to confine your statements to Dr. Xiao's procedure and to refrain from personal attacks. You say that you are afraid of personal retaliation and yet you are again making personal attacks of Dr. Xiao on this public forum. In case you do not understand what I mean by personal attack, I refer to your repeated claims that Dr. Xiao is dishonest and that he has made threats against you. Please do not bring your acrimonious personal vendetta onto CareCure. It is clearly a vendetta, a campaign to discredit Dr. Xiao. It is not welcome on this site. I am consequently moving this thread into the Members Only Forum. If you make another attack post, I will remove this thread and ban you.