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It is time to start suspending the licenses of medical professionals who regularly and consistently push Covid misinformation -- including "cures" that are not effective in preventing or treating Covid. It is time to stop the spread of Covid misinformation which is killing people -- especially coming from clowns with medical backgrounds.

The state medical boards should aggressively be taking firm action against these quacks and not merely giving them a slap on the wrist ... like the Texas medical board just did with the demon-sperm doctor.

Texas Medical Board takes 'corrective action' against Trump-loving 'Alien DNA' doctor
https://www.rawstory.com/stella-immanuel/

The Texas Medical Board has taken a "corrective action" against Dr. Stella Immanuel, the infamous Trump-loving Houston doctor who has in the past spouted theories about demons impregnating human women during their sleep and about physicians using "alien DNA" to treat their patients.

The Houston Chronicle reports that the board took the action in response to Immanuel prescribing hydroxychloroquine as a treatment for COVID-19 "without adequately explaining the health consequences" to her patients.

"In an Oct. 15 decision, the medical board ordered Immanuel to submit proof of informed consent — or permission given by a patient who understands the possible health outcomes — for all off-label treatments she provides," writes the Chronicle. "She must adopt policies that require all consent documents to be reviewed and signed by the patient for off-label treatment. She also must pay $500 to the medical board."

Immanuel first came into the national spotlight last year after Trump promoted a video she produced that touted hydroxychloroquine as a treatment for COVID-19, despite the fact that multiple studies have shown that the anti-malarial drug is not effective at fighting the disease.

Despite Immanuel's wild theories about women being impregnated by demons, Trump last year said he was "very impressed" with her and thanked her for promoting hydroxychloroquine.
 
gwb-trading said:
It is time to start suspending the licenses of medical professionals who regularly and consistently push Covid misinformation -- including "cures" that are not effective in preventing or treating Covid. It is time to stop the spread of Covid misinformation which is killing people -- especially coming from clowns with medical backgrounds.

The state medical boards should aggressively be taking firm action against these quacks and not merely giving them a slap on the wrist ... like the Texas medical board just did with the demon-sperm doctor.

Texas Medical Board takes 'corrective action' against Trump-loving 'Alien DNA' doctor
https://www.rawstory.com/stella-immanuel/

The Texas Medical Board has taken a "corrective action" against Dr. Stella Immanuel, the infamous Trump-loving Houston doctor who has in the past spouted theories about demons impregnating human women during their sleep and about physicians using "alien DNA" to treat their patients.

The Houston Chronicle reports that the board took the action in response to Immanuel prescribing hydroxychloroquine as a treatment for COVID-19 "without adequately explaining the health consequences" to her patients.

"In an Oct. 15 decision, the medical board ordered Immanuel to submit proof of informed consent — or permission given by a patient who understands the possible health outcomes — for all off-label treatments she provides," writes the Chronicle. "She must adopt policies that require all consent documents to be reviewed and signed by the patient for off-label treatment. She also must pay $500 to the medical board."

Immanuel first came into the national spotlight last year after Trump promoted a video she produced that touted hydroxychloroquine as a treatment for COVID-19, despite the fact that multiple studies have shown that the anti-malarial drug is not effective at fighting the disease.

Despite Immanuel's wild theories about women being impregnated by demons, Trump last year said he was "very impressed" with her and thanked her for promoting hydroxychloroquine.
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Slow news day for Covid?

Figured you’d be countering the JAMA article linking J&J vac to increased brain blood clots.
 
gwb-trading said:
It is time to start suspending the licenses of medical professionals who regularly and consistently push Covid misinformation -- including "cures" that are not effective in preventing or treating Covid. It is time to stop the spread of Covid misinformation which is killing people -- especially coming from clowns with medical backgrounds.

The state medical boards should aggressively be taking firm action against these quacks and not merely giving them a slap on the wrist ... like the Texas medical board just did with the demon-sperm doctor.

Texas Medical Board takes 'corrective action' against Trump-loving 'Alien DNA' doctor
https://www.rawstory.com/stella-immanuel/

The Texas Medical Board has taken a "corrective action" against Dr. Stella Immanuel, the infamous Trump-loving Houston doctor who has in the past spouted theories about demons impregnating human women during their sleep and about physicians using "alien DNA" to treat their patients.

The Houston Chronicle reports that the board took the action in response to Immanuel prescribing hydroxychloroquine as a treatment for COVID-19 "without adequately explaining the health consequences" to her patients.

"In an Oct. 15 decision, the medical board ordered Immanuel to submit proof of informed consent — or permission given by a patient who understands the possible health outcomes — for all off-label treatments she provides," writes the Chronicle. "She must adopt policies that require all consent documents to be reviewed and signed by the patient for off-label treatment. She also must pay $500 to the medical board."

Immanuel first came into the national spotlight last year after Trump promoted a video she produced that touted hydroxychloroquine as a treatment for COVID-19, despite the fact that multiple studies have shown that the anti-malarial drug is not effective at fighting the disease.

Despite Immanuel's wild theories about women being impregnated by demons, Trump last year said he was "very impressed" with her and thanked her for promoting hydroxychloroquine.
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Here are 1200 Health professionals who should lose their licensees

Over 1,000 health professionals sign a letter saying, Don't shut down protests using coronavirus concerns as an excuse

“We should always evaluate the risks and benefits of efforts to control the virus,” Jennifer Nuzzo, a Johns Hopkins epidemiologist, tweeted on Tuesday. “In this moment the public health risks of not protesting to demand an end to systemic racism greatly exceed the harms of the virus.”

This was 500,000 deaths ago
 
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A doctor spread COVID misinformation and renewed her medical license with a mouse click
https://www.npr.org/sections/health...on-and-renewed-her-license-with-a-mouse-click

For much of the pandemic, Dr. Lee Merritt has appeared on talk shows and in lecture halls to spread false information about COVID-19.

Among her claims: that the SARS-CoV2 virus is a genetically engineered bioweapon (the U.S. intelligence community says it's not). And that vaccination dramatically increases the risk of death from COVID (data show an enormous drop in risk for those who take the vaccine). The entire pandemic, she says in public lectures, is a vast global conspiracy to exert social control.

And yet, in October, she was able to renew her medical license in the state of Nebraska. Documents obtained through a public records request by NPR showed it took just a few clicks: 12 yes-or-no questions answered online allowed her to extend her license for another year.

Critics say that Merritt's renewal is another example of how the nation's state medical boards are failing to protect the public from a small minority of doctors spreading COVID falsehoods.

"State medical boards, for the main part, have been cozy clubs of people who feel their job is to protect the profession," says Imran Ahmed, the CEO of the Center for Countering Digital Hate, a group that tracks vaccine misinformation online.

In the past, that's meant a slow process that provided physicians every opportunity to defend themselves against a complaint, he claims. But in the current pandemic, Ahmed argues, medical boards need to move faster and with more force. "Speeches aren't enough, letters aren't enough, we need action now," he says.

A dangerous message
Few people have been more influential over the course of the pandemic than doctors. They have been at the front lines, battling COVID and facilitating the vaccine rollout. Public health officials also see doctors as a major tool in fighting misinformation. Officials encourage vaccine-hesitant individuals to talk to their physician, as a way of combatting the vortex of false claims and conspiracy theories online.

But a handful of doctors like Dr. Merritt have worked contrary to these efforts: spreading bad information about COVID-19. Their qualifications make their message especially dangerous, says Nick Sawyer, an emergency room doctor who heads No License For Disinformation, a group seeking action against doctors who spread falsehoods.


"Physicians should be held to a higher standard because people are entrusting us with their lives," he says.

The licensing of physicians in the United States varies from state to state. Medical boards are typically set up under state law and populated with a mix of doctors, lawyers and citizens. The boards can receive complaints from any member of the public. They then investigate and carry out disciplinary action according to their own rules and the laws of the state.

License renewals are often automatic, and Sawyer says he wants that process to be as smooth as possible. But he is also frustrated by the lack of disciplinary action: "If you're a physician in good standing, then you should be able to continue your practice without having to jump through a bunch of hoops," he says. "But that is also assuming that the medical board is doing its job."

Spread of misinformation is not censured
So far, it appears that many physicians spreading bad information have escaped censure. In September, NPR looked at 16 doctors who have spread false claims about COVID, including Merritt. Records show that none have been disciplined, and all but one continue to hold an active medical license. And Dr. Merritt was not the only one who obtained a renewal.

Public records obtained by NPR show that Dr. Sherri Tenpenny, another prominent anti-vaccine physician who claims — among other things — that vaccines make people magnetic, renewed her license online. The Ohio Capitol Journal first reported Tenpenny's renewal in September.

Neither Dr. Merritt nor Nebraska's Department of Health and Human Services, which oversees its medical board, responded to NPR's request for comment. But Dr. Humayun Chaudhry, the president of the Federation of State Medical Boards, an umbrella group, says medical license renewals are designed to be simple for doctors.

"It's a procedural step that is usually automatic and not even deliberated upon by the board," he says. He says boards simply don't have the capacity to review many hundreds or thousands of renewals that come up each year, and that a failure to renew would be equivalent to a license suspension, which cannot be done without due process. But he also says the renewals do not prevent boards from taking action.

"A medical license that's automatically renewed does not mean that an investigation isn't ongoing, nor does it prevent a board from taking a disciplinary action against that licensee," he says.

In fact Chaudhry says a recent survey by the federation found that over half of the nation's medical boards have seen an increase in complaints about doctors disseminating false information about COVID-19. Among those who responded to the FSMB survey, he says 21% have already taken some kind of disciplinary action. Many others are now quietly investigating complaints, Chaudhry says. They just need more time to act.


In the meantime, Lee Merritt continues to travel the country, giving speeches filled with junk science.
 
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Texas needs to take the next step and take her medical license away for regularly and consistently spreading Covid misinformation.

Houston doctor suspended for 'spreading dangerous misinformation' responds to allegations
https://abc13.com/houston-doctor-suspended-dr-mary-bowden-covid-methodist/11230466/

Houston Methodist has suspended privileges for a Houston doctor after officials claim she was 'spreading dangerous misinformation' about the COVID-19 vaccine and treatments.

Dr. Mary Bowden, an ear, nose and throat specialist with a popular private practice on Kirby Drive, has been outspoken about vaccine mandates and treatments.

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Hospital revokes Houston doctor’s privileges for ‘spreading dangerous misinformation’ about covid on Twitter

Mary Bowden, an ear, nose and throat doctor at Houston Methodist Hospital, says vaccine mandates are wrong.

It’s asentiment she has tweeted aboutnumerous times this month,even declaring last week that she is “shifting my practice” to focus on treating unvaccinated patients.

Bowden has also used her personal Twitter account to promote the anti-parasitic drug ivermectin as a treatment for the coronavirus, despite warnings from public health officials advising people not to take it.

But those opinions have come at a professional cost. Bowden, who recently joined the hospital’s medical staff, has been suspended for “spreading dangerous misinformation” and sharing “harmful” personal and political opinions about the coronavirus vaccine and treatments, a hospital spokeswoman told The Washington Post.​

 
Of course, the medical profession is becoming more of a religious cult at this point - which bodes ill for the future of medicine and trust.
 
Tsing Tao said:
Of course, the medical profession is becoming more of a religious cult at this point - which bodes ill for the future of medicine and trust.
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Says the guy who supports medical professionals pushing Covid misinformation -- making them no more than snake oil salesmen pushing Ivermectin, Hydroxychloroquine and other fake cures. It is time state medical associations started to actively suspend the licenses of medical professionals who peddle misinformation while a pandemic is killing tens of thousands of people due to these fabrications.
 
gwb-trading said:
Says the guy who supports medical professionals pushing Covid misinformation -- making them no more than snake oil salesmen pushing Ivermectin, Hydroxychloroquine and other fake cures. It is time state medical associations started to actively suspend the licenses of medical professionals who peddle misinformation while a pandemic is killing tens of thousands of people due to these fabrications.
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right, the misinformation you can never seem to counter with anything other than conjecture and dogma and narrative. Right.

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