On 10/11/2007 Earline wrote:
My cousin is receiveing treatment for Stage 4 ovarian cancer in Acuna Mexico at St. Joseph Medical Center by Dr. Charles Rogers. Has anyone heard of him and this center? Is it legit? I am very concerned about her. They say the tumors (she has 5) have to get bigger before they disapper. Now she is beginning to have nausea and bowel problems. She has been in Mexico for 2 months receiving treatment and has not been able to talk directly to the doctor in this time. Any info would be appreciated.
Dr. Charles Rogers uses teleconferencing to speak directly to his patients. Here is why:
from:
http://www.iht.com/articles/2005/01/23/news/mexico.php
Americans in other border cities have also reported being kidnapped. Dr. Charles Rogers, 57, a Brownsville, Texas, oncologist who ran a cancer clinic in the Mexican city of Matamoros, which is just across the Rio Grande from Brownsville near where it feeds into the Gulf of Mexico, was abducted at his clinic and held hostage at gunpoint for several hours on Dec. 9, until he arranged for his wife to pay an $88,000 ransom.
In an interview, Rogers said he had been stopped by three men who identified themselves as Mexican federal police officers. After the ransom was paid, he said, he jumped from a moving vehicle to escape because he was afraid the kidnappers were going to kill him. He left his clinic to Mexican physicians and now consults by videoconferencing.
"I have not been back since," he said. "I am never going back."