Miss Whalen is a writer and a medical laboratory technician with extensive experience in chemistry and immunology. Miss Whalen is allergic to caffeine and was first misdiagnosed in 1975. In fact, the emergency room doctor induced psychosis. For the next 24 years, Miss Whalen continued ingesting caffeine. Psychosis became chronic and progressed. Although Ruth desperately sought adequate medical care for symptoms directly related to caffeine toxicity and allergic response to caffeine, doctors diagnosed anything but, including TMJD, rosacea, and muscular dystrophy. After a good doctor accurately diagnosed the allergy, Miss Whalen began recovering and researching. Her articles appear in the Townsend Letter for Doctors and Patients, the Journal of Orthomolecular Medicine, Positive Health Magazine, and Medical Veritas, the Journal of Medical Truth.
Miss Whalen states, "Doctors commonly ignore abnormal lab results. Instead, unable to pinpoint the cause of a complaint and its related abnormal lab results, doctors diagnose ADHD and/or a mental disorder. However, an abnormal lab result means that a person is suffering from a physical condition.