![]() Marty goes into his shtick, talking silly, rubbing the muzzle, giving the dog a few noogies on the head. The owner is horrified: What’s he doing? Is he crazy?īut by now, it’s too late. With the client busy reading, Goldstein turns to the dog lying despondently on the table and cuffs him one under the chin. “I promise you there would be less cancer “and bring it in bleached white and beautiful, To be great is to be misunderstood”-Emerson. “Pythagoras was misunderstood, and Socrates, and Luther, and Copernicus, and Galileo, and Newton, and every pure and wise spirit that ever took flesh. “Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds”-Einstein. He also surrounds himself with great quotations, comforting thoughts on nonconformity to be shared with his clients: ![]() But at the moment, he said, he’s too busy trying to save lives to compile data. “It’s my goal in life to get my cases documented,” said Goldstein, who dreams of building a research center and teaching. By failing to do so, they say, he’s consigning himself to the fringes of a profession he’s risked his reputation to change. “This is a path I chose to take.”īesides, it was much worse a decade ago, when he addressed the regional veterinary society and part of his audience walked out.įor years, DeAngelis and others have tried to persuade Goldstein to document his work. “I don’t blame anyone for anything that comes against me,” he said. “A lot truly hate him and talk about him and would do injury to him professionally if they could.” “Many vets think he’s a quack, a wacko they give him no respect,” DeAngelis said. Martin DeAngelis, a veterinary surgeon in Ardsley, N.Y., who sometimes refers cancer patients to Goldstein, considers him a pioneer who “truly believes in what he’s doing, who loves the people and the animals and who has bettered the profession by expanding our view of what healing is about.”īut he acknowledges that’s not the prevailing view. “But I don’t know how many animals didn’t respond.”ĭr. “I don’t doubt the enthusiastic reports I get one bit,” Loew says. Franklin Loew, dean of the College of Veterinary Medicine at Cornell University, Goldstein’s alma mater, likens his documentation to that of “the Hair Club for Men.” Impressive as they are, before-and-after pictures hold no sway with scientists. ![]() The “after” pictures show Whiskey at 130 pounds, a show-stopper who recently thwarted a robbery at his owner’s computer store and starred in a commercial for blue jeans Jupiter, his vision restored and his eyes sparkling with feline curiosity Blake, lying seductively on the same rug that once made his fur fall out, sporting a new coat of downy white fluff. There’s Whiskey the Rottweiler at 63 pounds, the embodiment of misery with every vertebra visible through the dull fur Jupiter the cat, blinded by a brain tumor, his eyes milky and opaque Blake the terrier, his fur gone and his skin blackened by allergies to grass, fleas and rugs.Īll were saved by alternative treatments after conventional medicine failed, Goldstein says: Whiskey by vitamins, organ concentrates and a diet of boiled vegetables and meats Jupiter by injections of immune components Blake by nutritional supplements and homeopathic remedies. Pictures of the animals the staff call Marty’s miracles cover the walls at Smith Ridge. Making it, in this case, means surviving at least six months, although some live for years. Goldstein estimates it’s about 50-50, not counting the most hopeless cases. No cat goes unpetted, no dog unloved, not even the reeking retriever whose muzzle has swollen grotesquely like a football.Īs with animals treated conventionally, some of Goldstein’s patients, like the retriever, don’t make it. Marty’s miracles, says the staff, who preside with compassion and humor over a waiting room that sometimes resembles an animal version of Lourdes. That was 16 months ago, and Pushky is still going strong, his cancer in remission after a series of injections and supplements to strengthen his immune system, a treatment Goldstein’s critics contend has no scientific validity.Īnother of Dr. ![]()
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