Do they even acknowledge that that treatment has unusual and severe side effects for you, or are they just cluelessly blundering forward à la "sometimes you have to keep going through the BURN in order to keep up on LEG DAY"?

Ehh, I'd still have ethical issues with actually *doing* it, but I see your point. Sounds like a scam artist and a quack. You know, I had a um, questionable doctor prescribe me vitamins, and come to think of it, they *did* push me to get them from a particular online store... same scam?