It is time for state medical boards to take action and suspend the licenses of medical professionals who regularly and consistently push Covid misinformation. Numerous complaints filed with State Medical Board over doctors and COVID-19 misinformation https://www.adn.com/alaska-news/202...ard-over-doctors-and-covid-19-misinformation/
DeSantis' Florida wants doctors to freely spread medical misinformation. This may be a good time to remind people that most medical spreaders of misinformation are making millions of dollars on selling their snake oil. And Florida wants this to continue without disciplinary measures from occurring -- even as the misinformation leads to thousands of deaths. Should doctors be allowed to spread medically inaccurate information under free speech? https://abc-7.com/news/state/2021/1...lly-inaccurate-information-under-free-speech/ CAPE CORAL, Fla.– Should Florida doctors be able to spread information that isn’t medically accurate? A new bill could give your doctor more free speech and make it harder to discipline them for spreading questionable information. While free speech is a right it does have its limits. Some medical experts say House Bill 687 could make it harder to discipline doctors for spreading misinformation. “Sometimes they can base opinions on their religious beliefs or their background,” said Teresa Melendez who has concerns with the bill. She, like many, feels a doctor’s right to free speech should not affect her health. “We want something that is scientifically proven for the sake of my health and anybody else,” Melendez stressed. The new bill would give doctors more free speech on social media and it makes it harder to discipline medical experts for spreading misinformation. Barbara Garret of Fort Myers called it horrible. “It’s scary and we trust them for science and information. That’s why you go to them because you feel like you’re safe,” Garret said. Dr. Sue Hook runs The Samaritan Health Clinic in Cape Coral and also has concerns with the proposed bill. “Personally I’m not going to tell my patients something that I don’t know for sure,” Hook said. Dr. Hook, a nurse practitioner with a doctorate degree and specializes in family medicine said she fears HB 687 could muzzle licensing boards meant to hold doctors medically accountable. “If somebody is out there touting untruths and we can prove that is not true and it’s hurting people they should definitely be placed under some kind of discipline,” Dr. Hook said. The bill requires licensing boards to prove beyond a reasonable doubt that the medical experts’ post was harmful. “I think this particular bill may have gone a little bit too far,” said Dr. Pamella Seay FGCU Constitutional Law Professor Dr. Pamella Seay stresses that free speech has limits and causing harm is one of those limits. “How far do we go in saying you can talk about everything. Are we going to have snake oil salesmen again? What is it that we’re going to have,” Dr. Seay asked. The bill also applies to nurses, dentists and massage therapists. The house bill does not have a companion bill yet in the senate, something needed before it could proceed to becoming law.
The U.K. version... NHS nurse who called Covid a 'scamdemic' is sacked for spreading conspiracy theories Tracey McCallum told The Richie Allen Show, a radio broadcast that has previously featured Holocaust deniers and anti-Semites: “I don’t have any regrets. I’ve still got my moral compass intact.” https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/nhs-nurse-who-called-covid-25568467 An NHS nurse who labelled Covid a 'scamdemic' has been sacked. Tracey McCallum posted social media rants spreading conspiracy theories on the coronavirus. The 46-year-old, from Darvel, Ayrshire, was suspended by NHS24 for spouting her own alternative “research” online – branding the corona outbreak a “scamdemic”, reports the Daily Record. Now she has told a podcast host that she has turned her back on her career of more than 20 years to promote her extremist views. She told The Richie Allen Show, a radio broadcast that has previously featured Holocaust deniers and anti-Semites: “I don’t have any regrets. I’ve still got my moral compass intact.” When the Record approached McCallum about her appearance on the show, she said: “You know this isn’t right what they’re doing and for you to be complicit – I would not speak to you about this.” McCallum’s job at Ayrshire’s Crosshouse Hospital was hanging in the balance after she claimed face masks help spread the virus and compared the vaccination programme with “genocide”. She also backed an anti-malaria drug taken by ex-US president Donald Trump that was dismissed by world health chiefs. McCallum was reported to NHS bosses after spouting her views in nursing Facebook groups. She has now revealed she was “sacked” as a result of her views and had lost an appeal to be reinstated. (Article includes examples of insane social media posts by this idiot.)
Good Riddance! Anti-Vaccine Doctor John Witcher Says He Was Fired for Using Ivermectin on COVID Patients https://www.newsweek.com/anti-vacci...fired-using-ivermectin-covid-patients-1657471 Dr. John Witcher, the founder of a group of physicians who are against vaccine mandates, recently said he was fired from the Baptist Memorial Hospital in Yazoo City, Mississippi after he treated COVID-19 patients with Ivermectin. In a video shared to Telegram on Monday, Witcher said hospital officials asked him to leave his post in the emergency room after he took three patients off of remdesivir—a COVID-19 medication approved by the FDA—and replaced it with ivermectin—an anti-parasite medication that has not been approved for the treatment of COVID-19 by the FDA. "I was aware I was going against the hospital policy on ivermectin but still felt like, as the treating physician of these patients, that I had that option," Witcher said in the video, reviewed by the Sun Herald newspaper. In a statement sent to Newsweek, Baptist Health confirmed that Witcher is no longer working at the hospital, adding that Witcher was not an employee of the health system, but rather an independent physician on contract with the hospital. "Dr. Jonathan Witcher no longer practices medicine as an independent physician at Baptist Memorial Hospital-Yazoo," a Baptist Health spokesperson wrote. "Baptist Memorial hospitals follow the standards of care recommended by the scientific community and our medical team in the prevention and treatment of COVID-19," the hospital added. "These include the COVID-19 vaccine and monoclonal antibody treatment, which have proven to be safe and effective in severely reducing illness from the virus and saving countless lives." In the online video, Witcher said he's "concerned" that the patients were put back on remdesivir, adding that "I would like to have access to those patients." Previously, Witcher's medical license was revoked after the Mississippi Board of Medical Licensure opened up an investigation into over a decade of misconduct and concluded that the doctor was a "danger to society," according to the Herald. Witcher said he decided to switch his COVID-19 patients onto ivermectin after discussing so with his colleagues. The physician is the head of the Mississippi Against Mandates, a small group of nine doctors who are against vaccine mandates for hospital employees and who have been known to circulate vaccine misinformation and rally against mandates. n a video posted to YouTube, Witcher said that his group was against vaccine mandates, which "sham[e] people, like myself, that don't want to be vaccinated. It's ostracizing us." "They're saying that the solution to our COVID pandemic is that everybody needs to get vaccinated. This is a belief they may have, but this is not fact," he said. Federal and state health officials have continued to tout vaccinations as the strongest defense to COVID-19 and say available data indicates that vaccines are effective at preventing severe illness. Earlier this week, after announcing Mississippi reported its first case of the Omicron variant, the state's top medical officer, Dr. Thomas Dobbs said, "Vaccines remain the best public health measure to protect people from COVID-19, slow the transmission rate, and reduce the likelihood of new variants emerging." "COVID-19 vaccines are highly effective at preventing severe illness, hospitalizations, and death," Dobbs said. Mississippi's vaccination rates are significantly lower than national figures. As of Wednesday, less than half of the state's population is fully vaccinated. Comparably, 60 percent of the country's population is fully vaccinated. Over the course of the pandemic, the virus has claimed more than 10,000 lives in Mississippi.
The U.S. should follow Canada's example -- Suspend the licenses of anti-vax unvaccinated doctors until they get the jab. Some N.B. patients learning their unvaccinated doctors have been suspended https://globalnews.ca/news/8437218/new-brunswick-unvaccinated-doctors-suspended/
The solution is to take the licenses away from anti-vax doctors who continually peddle misinformation. The sooner the better. Pressure builds against doctors peddling false virus claims Medical regulators are under increasing pressure to act against American doctors who spread COVID-19 misinformation https://www.independent.co.uk/news/texas-rhode-island-oregon-maine-stella-immanuel-b1977499.html They have decried COVID-19 as a hoax, promoted unproven treatments and pushed bogus claims about the vaccine, including that the shots magnetize the human body. The purveyors of this misinformation are not shadowy figures operating in the dark corners of the internet. They are a small but vocal group of doctors practicing medicine in communities around the country. Now medical boards are under increasing pressure to act. Organizations that advocate for public health have called on them to take a harder line by disciplining the doctors, including potentially revoking their licenses. The push comes as the pandemic enters a second winter and deaths in the U.S. top 800,000. At least a dozen regulatory boards in states such as Oregon Rhode Island Maine and Texas recently issued sanctions against some doctors, but many of the most prolific promoters of COVID-19 falsehoods still have unblemished medical licenses. “Just because it is physicians, it is no different than if someone called you claiming to be the IRS trying to steal your money,” said Brian Castrucci, president and chief executive officer of the de Beaumont Foundation. “It’s a scam, and we protect Americans from scams.” Castrucci's organization, which advocates for public health, and No License For Disinformation, which fights false medical information, issued a report Wednesday that highlighted some of the cases. The report emerged a week after the Federation of State Medical Boards released a survey that found that 67% of the boards had seen an increase in complaints about COVID-19 misinformation. That figure “is a sign of how widespread the issue has become,” said Dr. Humayun Chaudhry, president and CEO of the federation. Dr. Kencee Graves, a physician at the University of Utah hospital in Salt Lake City, said one of her patients decided not to get vaccinated after listening to misinformation from a physician. “She was led astray" by someone she should have been able to trust, Graves said, describing the patient as a “very, very sweet older lady.” The woman later acknowledged her mistake, saying “I realize now I am wrong, but that is who I thought I should listen to.” There is widespread support for cracking down on such doctors, according to a national poll conducted by the de Beaumont Foundation. In the survey of 2,200 adults, 92% of respondents said doctors do not have the right to intentionally spread false information. But policing doctors is no easy feat for boards that were created long before social media. Their investigations tend to move slowly, taking months or even years, and many of their proceedings are private. Castrucci said it is time for them to “evolve," but doing so is challenging. This month, Tennessee’s medical licensing board removed from its website a recently adopted misinformation policy amid pressure from a GOP state lawmaker and a new law imposing sprawling virus-related restrictions. Even individual board members have been targeted. In California, the president of the state's medical board, Kristina Lawson, said a group of anti-vaccine activists stalked her at home and followed her to her office last week. She said the people identified themselves as representing America’s Frontline Doctors, a group that criticizes the COVID-19 vaccine and spreads misinformation. The group's leader, Dr. Simone Gold, who was arrested during the Jan. 6 insurrection at the U.S. Capitol, tweeted this month to her nearly 390,000 followers that “nurses know that Covid patients are dying from government subsidized hospital protocols (Remdesivir, intubation), NOT from Covid." Gold remains a licensed physician in California, although her emergency medicine certification lapsed last year. Complaints and investigations are not public in the state, so it is unclear whether she faces any. In Idaho, the state's medical association got so frustrated with pathologist Dr. Ryan Cole's promotion of the anti-parasite drug ivermectin that it filed a complaint with the state medical board. Susie Keller, the association's chief executive director, said she believed it was the first time the group sought action against one of its own. Many doctors, she explained, are fed up. The spreading falsehoods have "actually caused our physicians and nurses to be subjected to verbal assaults" by patients who are convinced that the fake information is true, Keller said. Cole did not respond to a request for comment from The Associated Press, but his work voicemail said that he is “unable to prescribe medications or issue vaccine or mask exemption letters." The voicemail also directed callers to the website of the Front Line COVID-19 Critical Care Alliance, a group that champions ivermectin. Under Idaho law, all investigations of physicians are conducted in private unless there is a formal hearing. The Washington state medical board, meanwhile, is investigating five complaints about Cole, spokeswoman Stephanie Mason said. Investigating misinformation is "very challenging in that a lot of action isn’t documented,” she wrote in an email. Many examples “happen quietly in an office.” In Ohio, the state's medical board automatically renewed the license of Sherri Tenpenny in September after the Cleveland-based osteopathic doctor testified this summer before a state House Health Committee that COVID-19 vaccines cause magnetism. Vaccine recipients “can put a key on their forehead; it sticks," Tenpenny said. Jerica Stewart, a spokesperson for the state's medical board, said that a recent license renewal doesn't prevent the board from taking action. “Making a false, fraudulent, deceptive or misleading statement" is grounds for discipline, Stewart said. In Texas, Dr. Stella Immanuel appeared in a video that promoted the anti-malarial drug hydroxychloroquine. “You don’t need masks. There is a cure.” In October, the Texas Medical Board ordered her to pay $500 and improve her consent procedures because it found she had prescribed hydroxychloroquine to a COVID-19 patient without adequate explanation of the potential health consequences, records show. Immanuel did not respond to a Facebook message from the AP, and the medical practice where she works did not respond to an email. Dr. Nick Sawyer, who heads No License For Disinformation, described the action against Immanuel as a “small slap on the wrist” and accused the nation's medical boards of “not doing their job of protecting public health."
Long overdue to take this clown's medical license away after an endless stream of harmful Covid misinformation. Doctor has medical license suspended after writing COVID vaccines are associated with reproductive harm https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/...accines-are-associated-with-reproductive-harm
Science : Dont ever challenge science, Faucl will hunt you down, you will be canceled Bloodletting (or blood-letting) is the withdrawal of blood from a patient to prevent or cure illness and disease. Bloodletting, whether by a physician or by leeches, was based on an ancient system of medicine in which blood and other bodily fluids were regarded as "humours" that had to remain in proper balance to maintain health. It is claimed to have been the most common medical practice performed by surgeons from antiquity until the late 19th century, a span of over 2,000 years
A lot of people cannot get treatment because Doctors and nurses are being fired all over the damn place. How will this work out in the long run?