Diagnosis Unknown: Our Journey to an Unconventional Cure

"This book will easily open your mind to metaphysics, quantum physics, and the VALIDITY of alternative healing therapies (and practitioners to seek after if you're chronically ill and hopeless like I was). I don't know how to convince you, but if you are sick and looking for miracles there are people mentioned in this book who can actually cure most ailments by unimaginable means. I have contacted these healers myself and am being healed as I write. This book leads you to a wonderful shortcut to the medical treatments of the future that probably won't be accepted by society for, I am told, about 50 to 100 years from now. If you're diseased or chronically ill - or know someone who is - take a chance on your own serendipitous fate of coming across this book."
~ Written on 2008-06-21

"I found this book insightful and inspirational. Randy's writing style was right on the mark. This is a very personal story and journey.

So many books written about alternative therapies today are heavy-handed and decidedly one-sided against modern medicine.

Randy takes a lighter tact. He tells the story of how he and his wife were slowly "pushed" into alternative methods due to allopathic medicines' inability to find the upstream cause of his wife's condition and the continuing pattern of "handoffs" from one allopathic practitioner to another.

I find them both courageous. It's hard to put your life in someone's hands when that someone isn't a doctor. We're taught from young that doctors are the final frontier when something ails the body.

But Randy and his wife weren't looking for PhDs and wall plaques, they were looking for answers to a condition that took much of his wife's vitality and nearly killed her on several occasions.

One of the best books I've read - I couldn't put it down."
~ Written on 2007-03-31

"This book gives an incredible insight into both conventional and alternative medicine. Although the subject is very serivous the author turns it into a humourous mystery novel.

I have recommended this book to over 20 people and without exception they report back that they couldn't put it down. Most people say they read it in one sitting or in 2 to 3 days."
~ Written on 1999-11-22

"I am a medical physician. I have purchased and perused scores of well-written books put out by experienced practitioners for other health professionals. Many of them have proved quite useful. None however has given me the sense of what it is like to be the bewildered patient who has just seen a dozen primary care and specialist physicians for a steadily worsening condition, and now does not know where to turn. This book does. I work in an Emergency Department. I see a number of people there, frequently at odd hours, who arrive searching for answers we are hard-pressed to give them there. I think they come to us because they simply don't know where else to turn. Unlike the nicely worked-out treatment guidelines we learn in medical school, there is no clear protocol for those who "fail" our allopathic therapies. And, this is at a time when so many need so much more than what we are presently trained to offer. Diagnosis Unknown explores the actual experience of what it is like to be young, previously healthy, suddenly ill and steadily declining, and with not even a medical diagnosis (let alone medical therapy) in sight. Imagine having already seen every available medical specialist relevant to your condition, and steadily getting worse. Where would you then turn? Massage? Radionics? Acupuncture? Electrodermal screening? This book takes the reader through all of these, and quite a bit more. It is such a handy experiential guide that I have been recommending it to patients and colleagues alike."
~ Written on 1998-06-10

"When I started to read this book I had no idea I would be awake at 2:00am unable to put it down. It is written with the sense of suspense that a who-done-it has. I am a health care professional and although I have a great deal of respect for "modern" medicine, I have all too often witnessed patients made worse by our interventions. I so enjoyed the self disclosure that the author brings to his writing. The reader can readily identify with the search and sympathize with Linda in her desperate illness. The book has given me a great reading list and opened my eyes to methods of diagnosis and treatment that I would never have known about. I also appreciate the direct voice that the author uses - very clear - not on a soap box - simply sharing their adventure. It would be easy, considering their experience, to use this book to vent their collective spleens at the medical community. The battles between the AMA, et al. and alternative medicine were reported factualy without added fuel, allowing for the reader to absorb the information and make up his or her own mind. I recommend this book very highly for anyone who desires to take charge of their health and would like to share how a delightful and charming couple managed to take charge of theirs."
~ Written on 1998-01-06