his clinic akclinand denied responsibility for the deaths. we called his spokesperson. we certainly want to give him an opportunity to comment and respond to some of this. >> reporter: but he declined our interview, so we decided to go straight to him. dr. webster, dr. gupta with cnn. i am wearing a microphone, i want to know if i can ask ask you a couple questions. >> i have an appointment right now. >> reporter: will you sit down and talk to us afterwards? after the appointment, will you talk to us. will you answer a couple questions for us? >> nope. >> reporter: you don't want to answer any questions? >> no. >> reporter: all right. we did get a statement, in it dr. webster says the clinic treated difficult and complicated people with pain with the highest standard of care. he went on to call the deaths a tragedy of the worst kind for patients to die not from a result of treatment, but in spite of it. >> she was doing great. she was up to walking almost