Dad says U.S. treatment Canadian doctors dubbed as ‘witchcraft’ will help son

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A Quebec father says he had to take his son to the United States for care after alleging doctors in Montreal wrote off his son’s chances at survival.In October 2024, two-and-a-half-year-old Arthur Tetrault was found in the pool of a home his family was renting in Ile-Bizard, Que., a Montreal suburb.Nicolas Tetrault said his son was rushed to the Lakeshore General Hospital Emergency department, and eventually, was transferred to the Montreal Children’s Hospital.It was there where his father said he began to grow unsatisfied with how his son was being treated.“They decided unilaterally that Arthur had no chance of survival, couldn’t breathe on his own (and) would be basically in the vegetative state for the next years of his life,” Tetrault said.Not wanting to give up on his son, Tetrault said he started doing his own research on possible treatments for drowning victims.He found the work of Dr. Paul Harch, a specialist on hyperbaric oxygen treatment in Louisiana who claims he’s had several positive results in young victims of brain injuries, including that 85 per cent of severely drowned children would see some level of improvement with hyperbaric oxygen treatment.Tetrault said he asked doctors in Montreal to give Arthur hyperbaric oxygen treatment and other alternative treatments based on increasing oxygen levels.According to him, they said no.

Hyperbaric treatment is not approved by Health Canada to treat drowning victims.“They said, ‘It’s witchcraft, all the doctors in the U.S. are imbeciles,'” Tetrault claims.Dr.