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Vikki Georges Hufnagel, MD, was born March 1949 in Chula Vista California. She attended the prestigious Ford Foundation Nova School in Fort Lauderdale Florida. While at the University of California Berkeley she was a founding member of the Berkeley Women’s Health Collective. She helped to establish the first free clinic for women at Berkeley Ca. She wrote chapters for the revolutionary self help book “Ourbodies, Oursleves” (Simon and Schuster) with the Boston Bread and Roses Collective. Always knowing she wanted to be a physician her classes were focused on science. While at UC Davis she set up clinics for the local farm workers ,she worked in the fields with Chavez  and was a founder of La Raza in the area. She lead her class in donating medications and equipment to the farm workers. While at UCSF Vikki had wonderful experiences in working with the team that created growth hormone and became Genetech, and became an NIH fellow in reproductive genetic and fetal surgery under Dr. Mitchell Golbus. As a medical student she edited Ida Rolf’s first book ,documented the Dalkon Shield as causing severe infections and death ,and worked in lab to isolate chlyamadia. In residency she wrote created revolutionary concepts in women’s health care at the American College of Ob Gyn : IntraOperative Ultrasound, Screening for Ovarian Cancer ,Red Uterine Syndrome, Prenatal Process and others. She wrote grants and received WHO award of achievement in educating women about the menstrual cycle and family planning. Served as Chief Resident and Gynaecological Oncology fellow at Albert Einstein College of Medicine. Only Ob/Gyn resident given Breast Surgical privileges at Albert Einstein College of Medicine

INFORMED CONSENT MANDATE

As an attending at Cedars Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles  she found data showing hysterectomy abuse. Vikki was asked to speak at the Kenneth Hahn Committee on Human Rights on Equity in Health. She worked as a volunteer with NIHS for four year to write the government document on hysterectomies. California Senator Diane Watson asked her to write the nation’s first informed consent law for hysterectomy. Senator Maxine Water’s asked her to write the first informed consent law for mastectomy. Hufnagel wrote both laws and became the first physician to write laws for patient protection.

N C C A M: The National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine

Dr. Hufnagel was asked by NIH to work on a program to create a government department for alternative medicine. She wrote papers and attended meetings and testified at the NIH to assist in the creation  the NCCAM. She was one of the first physicians to speak on issues of ethics in women’s medical care. She was first to define the fact that women’s medicine was dominated by myths on female psychology which resulted in the treatment of symptoms rather than diagnosis. She began a new scientific philosophy IDA standing for in-depth analysis. Her theory included the direct education of the patient in the process of IDA and teaching the science to them. Thus, began her focus on cognitive processes.

She continued her studies in science ,philosophy and psychology. She became a life long student in these area. She was found herself studying the work of CG Jung based on the simple fact that this school of thought encouraged the use of phenomenological approach to analysis.

In the 1980’s she made multiple breakthroughs in women’s medicine. She began to discuss gynecology as a reduction process. In gyn care organs were removed to deal with illness. She broke away from American teaching and studied the work of Dr.Viktor Bonney of England. She created FRS,Female Reconstructive Surgery in 1980 and by 1985 have over 20 new operations that repaired the female body. These operations have stood the test of time. Dr. Vikki has had the highest success rate for the most complex issues and the lowest complication rates on the globe. She travels the globe teaching FRS.

While creating FRS women who suffered from hysterectomies came to her Beverly Hills Herbody center which had the nations first women’s health library and museum. She also created the Institute for Reproductive Health that she funded to assist women with their legal and medical issues. In 1983 she created NCHtm Natural Cyclic Hormones and created the language for this area of medicine including “bio identical hormones”. She studied with Dr. Katheryn  Dalton and Dr. Robert Greenblatt. She was the first physician to attend compound school at PCCA under Walter Hayhusrt. Dr. Robert Mendelson  mentored her to become a whilst blower in women’s medicine.

She was introduced to the public by Gary Null and Amy Goodman at Pacifica Radio WBAI New York. She has one of the largest audiences on the east coast who over the years has come to trust her for her ethical approach to all topics, events and issues. She hosts The Ethical Doctor on WBAI and Progressive Radio Network. No More Hysterectomies and No More Menopause are her best selling books that she is currently re editing for Amazon.com. Her projects in 2012 include: Prevention of Diabetes, Hormone Hell an expose on abuses in the pharmacological world of hormones, Bank Crimes expose on Novastar, Morgan Stanley, and Mellon Bank crimes that destroyed the US economy, Shadow of Medicine collection of stories that go into depth medical abuses,  expose on the failure of the medical and legal system to protect children and Taboo her personal story on how society works to kill the messenger.