Irving Dardik: Difference between revisions

In the early 1970s, together with his brother Dr. [[Herbert Dardik]], he pioneered the use of umbilical veins as a source of graft tissue for bypass surgeries.<ref>{{cite journal|last=Staff|title=AMA News|journal=JAMA|volume=236|pages=2859–2862|issue=25|date=December 1976|doi=10.1001/jama.1976.03270260015018|pmid=1036587|first1=H|last2=Ibrahim|first2=IM|last3=Baier|first3=R|last4=Sprayregen|first4=S|last5=Levy|first5=M|last6=Dardik|first6=II}}</ref>

Dardik developed a system of treating diseases using wave form technology, which he called "supersonant waveenergy".<ref name="DN"/> His system basically involved exercise techniques that were designed to modulate the cardiac rhythms in order to amplify the body's natural wave frequencies to fight disease.<ref name=DN/> Dardik iswas co-author (with [[Denis Waitley]]) of ''Quantum Fitness: Breakthrough to Excellence''.<ref>{{cite book|last=Dardik|first=I|author2=Waitley, D|title=Quantum Fitness: Breakthrough to Excellence|publisher=Pocket Books|year=1984|isbn=978-0-671-50903-3|url=https://archive.org/details/quantumfitnessbr00dard}}</ref> In this book, Dardik promotes his wave energy techniques as an alternative fitness regimen.

In 1995, Dardik was stripped of his license to practice medicine, following a successful lawsuit filed by a former patient, Ellen Burstein MacFarlane, a former consumer-action reporter<ref name=sentinel>{{cite web|last1=Jankowski|first1=Lisa|title=In Work And Life, Ellen Macfarlane Was Epitome Of 'Grace Under Pressure'|url=httphttps://articleswww.orlandosentinel.com/2004-/12-/30/news/0412300242_1_bursteinin-work-and-life-ellen-macfarlane-multiplewas-sclerosisepitome-of-grace-under-pressure/|website=Orlando Sentinel|accessdateaccess-date=2 August 2016|date=30 December 2004}}</ref> who had been diagnosed with [[multiple sclerosis]] in 1985.<ref name=sentinel /> Dardik had claimed in a 1991 [[New York Magazine]] cover story that he could cure multiple sclerosis with wave energy therapy.<ref name=HDV>{{cite web|last1=DeMarco|first1=Jerry|title=$1.2 million in unpaid support puts former surgeon, 76, in Bergen jail|url=http://hackensack.dailyvoice.com/police-fire/12-million-in-unpaid-support-puts-former-surgeon-76-in-bergen-jail/636107/|website=Hackensack Daily Voice|accessdate=2 August 2016|date=23 February 2013}}</ref>

Dardik charged MacFarlane and her family $100,000,<ref>{{cite web|last1=Santich|first1=Kate|title=Ellen Macfarlane, Intrepid TV Sleuth Changed By Illness|url=http://articles.orlandosentinel.com/1992-11-15/news/9211111110_1_macfarlane-ellen-longwood|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151018033837/http://articles.orlandosentinel.com/1992-11-15/news/9211111110_1_macfarlane-ellen-longwood|url-status=dead|archive-date=October 18, 2015|website=Orlando Sentinel|accessdate=2 August 2016|date=15 November 1992}}</ref> with the promise that not only could he cure her multiple sclerosis, but also that he would personally be available for the treatment sessions.<ref name=SNY>{{cite web|author1=State of New York Department of Health State Board for Professional Medical Conduct|title=In the Matter of Irving I. Dardik, M.D. Findings of Fact as to Patient A|url=http://www.quackwatch.com/11Ind/Dardik/a.html|accessdate=2 August 2016}}</ref> After receiving his fee, Dardik treated MacFarlane in person at most 10 times during a 10-month period, sending proxies intermittently.<ref name=SNY /> MacFarlane's disease progressed, and her condition worsened.<ref name=SNY /> MacFarlane wrote a book with her sister, ''Legwork: An Inspiring Journey Through a Chronic Illness'' (Lisa Drew/Simon & Schuster 1994), in which she asserted that Dardik robbed her of not only money, but also of her hope for recovery.<ref>{{cite news|work=[[USU.S. News & World Report]]|title=Irving Dardik, wave maker|url=http://health.usnews.com/usnews/health/articles/051026/26book.htm|last=Querna|first=Betsy|date=26 October 2005|access-date=16 November 2009|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090803181444/http://health.usnews.com/usnews/health/articles/051026/26book.htm|archive-date=3 August 2009|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|work=[[Chicago Tribune]]|title=Back on her feet|url=httphttps://articleswww.chicagotribune.com/1992-/01-/09/features/9201030201_1_drback-irvon-dardikher-ellen-macfarlane-surgeon-from-new-jerseyfeet/|last=Imperiale|first=Nancy|date=9 January 1992}}</ref>

Dardik appears in "''The Believers''," a 2012 film about cold fusion, in which he claims to use his theories to both explain cold fusion and to treat cold fusion proponent [[Martin Fleischmann]] for his [[Parkinson's disease]].<ref>Screen Daily, [http://www.screendaily.com/reviews/the-latest/the-believers/5047850.article# "The Believers"], Oct. 7, 2012</ref>

In 1996, a [[New Jersey]] [[family court]] judge ordered that Dardik spend evenings in the [[Bergen County Jail]] until he could pay $24,000 towards spousal and child support arrears totaling $850,000.<ref>{{cite news|last1=Groves|first1=Bob|title=SURGEONSurgeon MUSTMust SPENDSpend HISHis NIGHTSNights INin Jail JAIL|url=https://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P1-22516696.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160911093305/https://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P1-22516696.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=11 September 2016|access-date=2 August 2016|work=[[The Record (Bergen County)|The Record (Bergen County, NJ)]]|publisher=North Jersey Media Group|date=30 August 1996|via=HighBeam Research|url-access=subscription }}</ref>

* 1976 - AMA's Hektoen Gold medal<ref>{{cite journal|last=Staff|title=AMA News|journal=JAMA|volume=197|page=28|issue=3|date=July 1966|doi=10.1001/jama.1966.03110030026014 }}</ref><ref>{{cite journal|last=Staff|title=AMA News|journal=JAMA|volume=236|pages=431–436|issue=5|date=August 1976|doi=10.1001/jama.1976.03270050003001}}</ref> (for the umbilical vein discovery).

* 2008 - Preparata medal of The International Society for Condensed Matter Nuclear Science.<ref name="ISCMNS">{{Cite web|author=Staff|title=Giuliano Preparata Medal Winners|publisher=International Society for Condensed Matter Nuclear Science|url=http://www.iscmns.org/prizes.htm|access-date=2012-04-25|archive-date=2015-04-11|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150411034508/http://www.iscmns.org/prizes.htm|url-status=dead}}</ref>

* {{cite book|title=Quantum Fitness: Breakthrough to Excellence|last=Dardik|first=I|author2=Waitley, D|publisher=Pocket Books|year=1984|isbn=978-0-671-50903-3|url=https://archive.org/details/quantumfitnessbr00dard}}

* {{cite journal|last=Dardik|first=I|title=Lateral T-Tube Duodenostomy: Duodenal Stump Management and Manometrics|journal=AMA Arch Surg|date=July 1973|volume=107|issue=1|pages=89–90|pmid=4714441|doi=10.1001/archsurg.1973.01350190075021|display-authors=etal}}

* {{cite journal|last=Dardik|first=I|title=Symmetrical Peripheral Gangrene|journal=AMA Arch Surg|date=October 1974|volume=109|issue=4|page=588|doi=10.1001/archsurg.1974.01360040096028|pmid=4414419|display-authors=etal}}

* {{cite journal|last=Dardik|first=I|title=Routine Intraoperative Angiography: An Essential Adjunct in Vascular Surgery|journal=Arch Surg|date=February 1975|volume=110|issue=2|pages=184–190|pmid=1115618|doi=10.1001/archsurg.1975.01360080050008|display-authors=etal}}

* {{cite journal|last=Dardik|first=I|title=Arteriovenous Fistulas Constructed With Modified Human Umbilical Cord Vein Graft|journal=Arch Surg|date=January 1976|volume=111|issue=1|pages=60–62|pmid=1244813|doi=10.1001/archsurg.1976.01360190062010|display-authors=etal}}

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