Allergist Loses Bid to Get License Back
A Los Angeles Superior Court judge Friday refused a Canoga Park doctor’s request to reinstate his medical license, which was revoked because he treated allergy patients by injecting them with their own urine.
Judge John Zebrowski denied an appeal by Dr. George R. Borrell to overturn a Dec. 4 decision by the Medical Board of California to cancel his license.
Borrell was ordered by another judge on Dec. 8 to discontinue his urine treatments, which Borrell has said he used on more than 5,000 patients. But the judge also blocked the license revocation until Zebrowski could hear Borrell’s appeal. Borrell, 69, operates clinics in Canoga Park and Anaheim under the name Allergy Control Medical Group.
State medical authorities said Borrell’s urine injections constituted an “extreme departure” from proper medical care.
Borrell could not be reached for comment Friday. But in previous interviews, he has defended his urine injections as a safe and effective “folk remedy” that has been practiced for more than a century.
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