Chch doctor undeterred

- 1 February 1987

A Christchurch doctor, Dr Robert Blackmore, who uses the same diagnostic method for alleged chemical poisoning as Dr Tizard, would like the method to be scientifically validated.

Dr Blackmore said yesterday that he would like to see a “properly set up” scientific trial of E.A.V. That did not mean the “cold, callous, do this-do that” kind of experiment that the Health Department had proposed to Dr Tizard, he said.

“E.A.V. is a difficult method of diagnosis to test scientifically because the person using the method is also important to its success,” said Dr Blackmore.

“Dr Tizard and I don’t believe this is suggestion at work, but the person working the diagnosis machine is somehow important in the system.

“We find that after doing nothing but diagnosis during a working day we become very tired and drained of energy, as though the patients have somehow soaked up energy from us. The various overseas articles and books I have read about the method say that if you don’t believe in what you are doing you won’t get good results.”

Dr Blackmore said he would continue with both the E.A.V. method and homeopathic treatment for patients as long as they continued to get better.

Of the 612 patients that Dr Blackmore had seen for alleged post-viral symptoms or chemical poisoning since August last year, about 80 per cent had shown an improvement in health, he said.

“For those who don’t improve I have continued to adjust the treatment, and for many of them it will simply be a matter of time before they feel better.”

Dr Blackmore said that an investigation into pesticide levels in foodstuffs and water was long overdue.