Well, this is weird…
According to this story, the widow of MLK died in a mexican fake hospital practicing various quackeries. Maybe she was so far gone that someone decided that a one in a billion chance was better than nothing.
Sadly, there are several such clinics in Mexico, all of them dealing in ineffective treatments for desperate terminal patients. I once worked for a man who was dying of Hodgkins disease, and he spent a few weeks at an “alternative” clinic in Mexico. He came back spouting an assortment of pseudo-medical nonsense (such as drinking distilled water and switching his wristwatch to his left hand) and taking bogus pills by the handful. None of it helped him, and he died anyway.
I can sorta understand somebody grasping at straws in that situation, but I wouldn’t do it myself.
Sadly, she’s not the first. Steve McQueen died of cancer at such a place, where he was enduring daily coffee enemas (how that was supposed to cure cancer, I have no idea).
There’s a tasteless joke involving the line “He’s in the ground this morning” lurking in there somewhere…
Her son told newsmen that she went there because doctors in the US had told her that her illness was terminal. Turned out they were right.
**Did Correta King die in a fake hospital? **
Yes.
http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/mexico/tijuana/20060203-9999-2m3clinic.html
Worse than I thought, there are clinics were this is authorized but these quacks did not even have a permit.